This is a mad idea. What is the power loss in 2560 miles of cables even at 1 million volts? It is still of the order of 7 amps ie 2 amps per cable. If that is 1kW per home, but Boris's plan needs at least 10 kW per home, so 70A, about 17A each. At 1 Ohm per mile that is 2560 Ohms so perhaps 10% overall power loss.
The storage needed is likely to be 4 weeks worth of the wind contribution and 16 hours of the solar one, in other words probably about 100GWh at least. Where is the backup gas-fired plant? I suppose they won't pay for that!
I know, it must be April the 1st moved to October!
This is a mad idea. What is the power loss in 2560 miles of cables even at 1 million volts? It is still of the order of 7 amps ie 2 amps per cable. If that is 1kW per home, but Boris's plan needs at least 10 kW per home, so 70A, about 17A each. At 1 Ohm per mile that is 2560 Ohms so perhaps 10% overall power loss.
The storage needed is likely to be 4 weeks worth of the wind contribution and 16 hours of the solar one, in other words probably about 100GWh at least. Where is the backup gas-fired plant? I suppose they won't pay for that!
I know, it must be April the 1st moved to October!
