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Iceland's volcanoes could power the UK: but at what cost?

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Editors Comment?, DC would have less loss? I thought Tesla won that argument with Edison long ago. Line losses are I^2R, AC can be transformed to high voltage (therefore low current) to minimize line losses; this presently done all over the World. Where is anyone transmitting DC power long distances? I'm shocked, pun intended.

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19 Apr 2012

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1:56 am

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