Western Australia powers up 10MW solar farm

[John Rumm]

arrangements - you can store desalinated water easily, and it does not matter when you do it within reason.

[John Williamson]

And the Dutch and Irish ones...

The chain would have to be Ireland slaved to us, and us slaved to the rest of Europe. Not too difficult, given the will to do it

When I was chatting with a CEGB person about the original cross-channel link during a guided tour for some CEGB engineers, he reckoned the lower capacitive and inductive losses in the cable using DC saved them a fortune in lost energy.

[The Natural Philosopher]

gets very inefficient if you have more than one path - the phase delays over even a 50Hz network are considerable at a thousand miles plus.

You end up with current circulating round te grid losing power and not doing anything..

Capacitors dont lose it, but again the out of phase currents they cause leads to resistive losses in the cables

[Andy Burns]

Yes, that's the "spin" version, intended to make you think the solar panels are next door to the water plant, and wired directly to it.

[John Rumm]

You can't read much into that though - committed can simply mean its all pre-sold to that customer.