Certainly with more and more power coming from renewables that can’t be switched on or off at will, that’s a gain for all.
Also, as to the poking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Authority_of_Cypru... says:
“In 2015, the EAC generated a total of 4,128 GWh of electricity consuming 947,226 tonnes of fuel costing €288,632,000. Maximum demand in the areas controlled by the Republic of Cyprus reached 939 MW. A total of 2.0 GWh of the produced electricity in 2015 valued €240,000 ended up in the area occupied by Turkey and no money could be collected for it.”
I guess that might stop once Cyprus can export power to the EU (but I also wonder why they would produce such excessive amounts of electricity. Could be to keep the peace, because they promised the UN, or something similar?)
The amount that couldn't be collected is less than 1% of the total generation. So my guess is it's due to decades old infrastructure where lines just happen to cross over to where the dividing line ended up. Something similar happened in Berlin, where two West Berlin train lines happened to pass through East Berlin briefly, and were allowed to continue to do so even after the wall went up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn
I can easily see the utility deciding that it's easier and cheaper to just let a small bit of power get stolen than incur the costs of changing that infrastructure, as well as the PR costs of cutting off that power. Overall grid losses are likely to be 5% or so anyway.
You'll never find . used as a thousands separator in the UK, Australia or English-speaking Canada either.
Just today there was a story in the news here in Norway how the windmills in Sweden is causing a massive price disparity between north and south of Norway, due to lack of transmission capability.
These days the price disparity can be over 50%, and Sweden is planning to massively expand their windmill generation up north.
[1]: https://www.nrk.no/urix/tror-svensk-vindkraftsatsing-vil-gi-...
:)
Sweden has an interesting problem where we want to build more wind power, but it can only really be done in the north at scale, but then the transmission capacity down south is missing, and that's where all the consumers are!
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Troll and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Visby%E2%80%93N%C3%A4s
come to mind.
Those two examples are rather small. Not even at the level of supergrid interconnectors proposed, or built elsewhere.
Technology improves and its availability and costs change. In this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transis... which appear everywhere from induction cooking fields/plates in household appliances to power electronics in electric cars and locomotives, upwards to so called smart- or super-grids(in their endpoints/substations). I'm sure there are even more applications of the enabling IGBTs which I'm unaware of.
Long AC lines in air also have a finite resistance between wires, but it is much higher and not much of a concern.
>The use of two HVDC cables will provide the link between all four sites. The use of two cables constitutes the bipolar operation of the project. A return path through earth, however, is provided in order to allow for the reinstatement of rated or half-rated power transfer through converter switching, in case of faults and disconnections of one of the two 500MW elements of the converter, or one of the two HVDC cable links.
(https://www.euroasia-interconnector.com/wp-content/uploads/2... p17)
Fresh water is way worse than air, and salt water way worse than fresh.
On DC lines, fields don't vary (much) so induce negligibly little currents.
In fresh water, there are fewer dissolved ions, but not none. Losses are less.
In perfectly pure water, small losses would come from swinging water molecules to point this way and that. Raindrops hanging on AC transmission line wires consume negligible power.
[0] https://www.homedepot.com/p/Scalewatcher-Nano-Electronic-Des...
From what I have been able to determine, nobody has shown that such a gadget works with any reliability. I.e., it might work under certain circumstances, but there is no way to know if your water and pipes match such a circumstance without buying. And, the prices quoted seem badly excessive. There is probably not more than $5 worth of parts in there, if in fact there are any.
Personally, I would not buy one. You could experiment with a permanent magnet, but it would be hard to know if it was helping or making it worse.
A somewhat similar sort of gadget is supposed to actually work, on diesel immediately before injection into truck engine combustion chambers, to produce more complete combustion.
So long as Israel plans for a future where such arrangements get rescinded, they could safely operate an energy market across the middle east and parts of Europe.
Could be a good counter way to counter russian oil, and pave way for a very lucrative post-oil society. Middle eastern countries have a lot of solar and empty land for energy-storage. With many of these middle eastern countries having the capital for large green-tech investments.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/02/26/ten-st...
https://ceoworld.biz/2020/03/03/ranked-military-strength-of-...
Those rankings are accurate when looking through the lens of "how many offensive resources do they have", but when you say "on virtually any dimension" I think one needs to also take geography into account.
For example Switzerland is also ranked well below Israel, but good luck invading the Swiss on their home turf.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/19/swis...
Israel is... not in a comparable "surrounded by friendly democracies" scenario.
Israel has 0 island-hopping capabilities compared to Greece's ability to patrol its Aegean waters.
"Most" as a percentage, not an absolute number. There were approximately 60.000 Jews who were murdered from Greece which amounts for 87% of the total Jewish population in the country. Hungary had some 500k loses, Poland 3M, Romania at least 200k, Soviet Union 1,3M etc.
Which conflict was that?
Is real has many costal patrol ships and a few subs. The Greeks have a navy suitable for their archipelago waters
The project that is meant to "poke turkey in the eye" is the EuroMed gas pipeline which is a different project.
But to be fair, turkey is welcome to join both forums, although this will probably mean that they will have to accept the application of international law in their maritime borders
On the other hand Israel and Turkey have mutual regional enemies and have collaborated both economically and militarily. Turkey manufactures and uses the Israeli Popeye missile under license, and I'm sure there are other collaborations I'm not aware of. Israeli teams have helped in earthquake relief efforts in Turkey. Historically the Jewish population of the Ottoman Empire were loyal subjects, because Ottoman hegemony provided them with security against their Arab neighbours.
So I doubt the Israelis are primarily doing this to spite the Turks, they're not exactly best buddies and it's useful to have leverage, but it's not in their interests to antagonise Turkey unnecessarily. I think it's just a matter of Israel looking after their own best interests in terms of energy security.
To be honest Greeks and Cypriots making life better for themselves doesn't have to be inherently a slight against Turkey either. I think the geopolitical dimension of this is over-baked.