Tag Archives: The Economist
Nuclear Power
A recent article in The Economist (see here) discussed the idea of building floating nuclear power plants. (Maybe even submarines.) The idea of having mobile power plants is not new, and obviously have been nuclear powered military ships for years. This is certainly a way to deal with many of
HVDC Transmission Lines
Page 71 of the January 14th issue of The Economist had an article discussing the building of high voltage direct current electric transmission lines (HVDC). (Article can be found here) As discussed in the article, HVDC is an efficient way to deliver large amounts of power over long distances, an