It's not clear why you are doubting the ability to transmit DC efficiently. There have been major advancements in semiconductor technology and computer control technology which allows high voltage DC to be generated and transmitted.As I mentioned before, to transmit DC would require substations or generators very close to each other, and huge conductors. The heating would be immense, and would cause all sorts of problems.
... I believe that DC transmission will never be as efficient as AC transmission, and that alone will make up for the issues produced by the appliances turning AC back to DC.
... unless some incredible new technology comes along that makes it safer and more efficient to transmit DC .
Since Edison was primarily a businessman, and since he is dead now, it's hard to say he will be a winner in this battle. He won many battles and even won the war since he died rich and famous, while Telsa died poor, lonely and is now a hero only to those of us here that understand something about real substance. But when it comes to this so called "battle of the currents", Edison lost, and ain't nothing gonna change that !!!The news says that Edison will win.
They're working on that one alreadyIf I had it my way and we had the money, I would connect off-shore wind turbines on to a superconducting transmission system
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