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by eecc 2418 days ago
Hmm has anyone experimented with variable frequency transmission and solid state frequency synthesizing power transformers?
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So you might be able to increase all the turbines from 50 to 70. That will absorb the excess power for a moment. Then you're maxed out and still need to shed just as much power as before.

So it doesn't help in any significant way, you have to set up a more complicated grid with very expensive transformers, and it requires you to design all your turbines to be twice as strong.