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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by nitrogen on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:18AM (#3701762)
I'm curious where you get the "600V" number from -- is that 600 volts? According to the Wikipedia page you linked the system uses "+270kV and −350kV", which is in the range I would expect. Maybe you meant 620kV, the difference between +270kV and -350kV?
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by jurjenh on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @06:13PM (#3705675)
My apologies, that must've been some confusion in my mind... it was a 600MW HVDC link... although it is higher now, and works are underway to bring it up to somewhere near 1.4GW.
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