Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cows and high tension wires
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.172351.27733@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1845@neoucom.UUCP> <8902@swlabs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 17:23:51 GMT

In article <8902@swlabs.UUCP> jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) writes:
>I was wondering: what ever happened to the use of high voltage DC for
>power transmission?  ...

It's done here and there, usually for some special reason like making
a connection between two power grids that aren't synchronized to each
other.  There is enough inconvenience involved in converting from AC
to DC and back that there usually needs to be a good reason.
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