ADC energy. More efficient electricity transmission?

[FlyingClayDisk]

Any discussion?

Discussion?  In a word?  WOW!!

"Wow", not because I am impressed, but "Wow" because just about the time I started having some hope for humanity, then I read something like this!  Wow!

First of all, the simple fact that NASA (a government body I've worked with for decades) allowed their name to be plastered all over a piece of absolute garbage like this...cheap leftist 'advertisement' (about the only words I can think of without swearing) is shocking.  It reads like it was written by a 12 year old, or worse.  The person who wrote this should be fired, erm, put in a NASA rocket and launched into the Sun.  I don't know what purpose this paper was drafted for, but if this is something to be presented to some congressional committee then God help us all!

There's more bullsh!t in the first (5) pages of that paper than I've seen in a very long while.  I didn't even get through page #1 before I was ready to punch my monitor.  I was angry by the end of the 1st bullet point!  Candidly, it's actually difficult for me to decide where to begin; there's just so much wrong with this.  I am truly having a difficult time responding without just endless strings of expletives.  None the less, I will try.

When Obama first took office, in addition to giving people free cell phones, he gave away trillions of taxpayer dollars to flim-flam fly by night outfits for all manner of solar and wind energy.  Every carpet-bagging thief on the planet started slapping up solar arrays and wind turbines of all manner and type, virtually destroying the American landscape.  GAH!!  (pardon me while I go outside and just scream for a while)  America's IQ must have dropped into the single digits when all this took place.

The problem with all of this "renewable energy" as it is so lovingly called is that the power, often generated in DC, was being generated where the consumers of that power were NOT.  For some incomprehensible reason no one seemed to care about this 'minor' little oversight.  So, what's the problem you ask?  Well, the power distribution grid in this country isn't set up like that, for one thing.  It is not set up to move all of this 'fabulous' "free energy" from where it is being generated to where it is being consumed.  So what happened next?  Answer - The wind farms and solar arrays got 'parked' (shut down).  Trillions of dollars of taxpayer dollars got shut down and just stopped while they sat there deteriorating in the elements waiting for a power distribution grid to come to them so they could do their job.  But that grid never came.  Why?  Because it would be Biblically expensive to do so.  (pardon me while I go outside and just scream some more!).  So, upwards of 75% of all that money got flushed directly down the TOILET!  YOUR MONEY!

The lofty "ADC" proposal which we see here is a desperate attempt at bilking some more money out of this same tired and unworkable trope.  And the hell of it is...they're not even trying to hide it!!!  They come right out and say it's "Proprietary" technology (which means ONLY THEY can sell it to you), and it is aimed squarely at addressing the exact issues I point out above.  How positively vomit-worthy.

Wind turbines and photo-voltaic arrays generate DC power.  Okay, so then what?  Well, that power either has to be stored (batteries like that are unimaginably expensive and short lived), OR it has to be converted to AC for transmission across our power grid.  Yes, it could be transmitted in its direct current form, but only for short distances (very).  Why?  Because the DC voltages generated are very low comparatively speaking, and DC is notorious for voltage drop across distance.  The only way to avoid this problem is to convert this DC power to extremely high DC voltages (something we already do on some high voltage cross-country transmission lines) (not all power distribution is AC, BTW).  Voltages far higher than any of these devices can generate.  The problem there is, these conversion systems are astronomically expensive (something NASA should know a thing or two about, being the space wizards they are).  This is why there are very few of these systems in the US.  In fact, I can count them on one hand; that's how few of them there are, and that's how expensive they are.  This "ADC" solution is a "Smoke & Mirrors" attempt to solve this problem.  It is a desperate and feeble attempt by the leftist "green" community to SAVE FACE and redeem themselves after the debacle which fleeced America once already, by fleecing them a second time!  GAWD DAMMIT!!!

I am sorry.  I simply cannot go on here.  I'm just too angry to continue.  Not only has my intelligence been severely insulted, no "assaulted" is a better word, but so too has everyone else's wallet who believes in garbage like this.

Please forgive me.  I think I'll just go cry.