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applegrove

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12. I think there is an electrical cable to Nova Scotia from Newfoundland.

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Sat Feb 1, 2025, 06:22 PM

Feb 2025

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6986829

Nova Scotians are debating the wind turbine - liquified hydrogen thing because they have lots of offshore wind potential and why convert electricity to hydrogen and sell it abroad when you yourself could use it?

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Quebec is building two more huge dams in Labrador, Newfoundland. [View all] applegrove Feb 2025 OP

Liquefied Hydrogen? Neat, I did not know this. I suppose that they use the excess elec power to freeze the excess SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #1

I meant liquified hydrogen not natural gas. Sorry. applegrove Feb 2025 #2

Ahhh! Thanks! It would be a neat trick to make natural gas by liquefying hydrogen only, but there is quite a bit SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #3

Here is a story on the Germany deal with Newfoundland from a few years ago. applegrove Feb 2025 #4

Interesting! They are almost just as put in a new cable(s) on the ocean floor, able to transmit electrical power, SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #5

Apple did Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #8

Not good...perhaps one day, the bugs will be worked out, or another mechanism will be developed that will do SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #10

I think there is an electrical cable to Nova Scotia from Newfoundland. applegrove Feb 2025 #12

Liquefying is not freezing Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #6

Ahhh, thanks for the clarification. I suspect then, that keeping frozen hydrogen frozen even harder to do/maintain, SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #7

Newfoundland elec power shipped to Nova Scotia & New England by underwater cable Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2025 #9

Thanks! Fascinating topic, just fascinating. SWBTATTReg Feb 2025 #11