On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 20:03, Herbert Graf wrote:
> line from our James Bay project. I'm sure other areas of the world also have
> DC runs. Wherever you have a VERY remote source of power (1500km+?) you are
> likely to see DC used these days versus AC.

ISTR reading somewhere that we (the UK) import quite a lot of power from
France through the Channel Tunnel using a HVDC transmission line.

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