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by rstuart4133 326 days ago
> It consumes a lot of power to transmit over long distances.

No, it doesn't. This is plain wrong. Power loss for a 1000 km HVDC line is 3.5% [0], which is the same order of magnitude as battery losses.

If you had of said it cost a lot of money to transmit over long distances, then fine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#:~...