The North Atlantic Transmission One Link (Nato-L) wants to connect the European & American electricity grids via a 3,500 km cable to share excess renewable energy. (www.independent.ie)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't that need big ass transformers and or that USA puts their net to 240V?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

😁 you don't transport electricity at low voltages like that, because the loss is bigger. In France there is roughly 400.000 volt lines, they get split up in 200.000v then 63.000 IIRC etc etc down to 230v (220, 230, 240 I never remember which country has which).

So no problem there.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

And for reference some US transmission lines are up to 765kV.

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