[TAG] Hydrogen fuel (non-Linux)

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:49:06AM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:24:29PM -0600, Jason Creighton wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2004 02:29:00 -0700, 
> > Mike Orr <mso at oz.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, 97% of electricity leaks away in the transmission lines.  If a
> > > smaller refinery is placed closer to the consumer, that cuts down
> > > emissions further.  Hydrogen converters can probably be placed closer
> > > to the consumer less obtrusively than conventional power plants can.
> > 
> > Whoa! 97%? That seems highly doubtful to me.
> 
> I read it somewhere but I don't remember where.  But a large amount of
> electricity does leak off the transmission lines.  People have ignored
> it coz there doesn't seem to be any way around it.

Quick look around on the Web says ~10%. E.g., Vietnam's power gen people
are working (described in the typical slogan-laden communist manner) to
reduce their losses from 13.4% to 10% - of which they say only 8.2%
comes from "technical difficulties".

<http://www.nhandan.org.vn/english/20030728/bai-social1.html#Global%20Environment%20Faciltiy>


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