Enabling Technology for DC Power TransmissionTransmission
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Electric Pipeline Corporation has invented and is developing polymer insulated electric pipelines "elpipes" for transmission of 3-30 GW through a pair of underground HVDC lines. Elpipes fit inside a pipeline that is similar to a gas pipeline, or they may be installed at the surface on conventional or narrow gauge railroad tracks. The train like features of elpipes make them convenient to install and convenient to repair.
5/22/11
Just Entered the CleanTech Open
I have decided that participation in both MassChallenge and the CleanTech Open are well worth the time and effort. In both cases, I am pitching the "Ballistic Circuit Breaker" rather than elpipes, though elpipes and more generally, an HVDC supergrid remain the long term goal of all my efforts. Before elpipes can be widely implemented it is essential to solve the problem of a a HVDC circuit breaker. Electric Pipeline Corporation per se has a new motto:
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