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We really need to locate the panels near the equator, and combine it with one day of storage. There is a project like this:

https://electrek.co/2021/09/27/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cab...

The problem for doing this large scale if the right of way for the HVDC lines. I'm watching this on a smaller scale in Massachusetts, where Maine voters are blocking a HVDC link to Hydro Quebec. But I think this is a game between established interests.. in this case NextEra funded the ballot question and advertising, I think because they lost out on their SeaLink project (HVDC to Seabrook nuclear power plant).

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/09/f79/EXHIBIT%...

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/politics/refere...




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