Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Chris McConnel]

During the energy crisis in 2000 in California, i was reading an article in the LA Times, about a lot of companies jumping into the solar/wind business, setuping up shop in Neveda, to supply California with power it lacked.

Not sure what happened with these projects, but what i found interesting at the time was just how ineffecient transmission lines are. The article stated that 70% of the power was lost from the long distance transmission lines. To me, it seemed like converting the power to hyrdogen, and use pipe lines to bring the hydrogen to the California would have made better sense.