Talk:Tres Amigas SuperStation

A map would help this article
Can anyone find a public-domain or government map of this electricity system interconection project? If not, any map makers want to draw one up? Adding reqmap tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by N2e (talk • contribs) 21:18, October 25, 2009


 * Removed request as I have added a map. Ng.j (talk) 20:44, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Coordinates required
Where will it be exactly located?

Technical Parameters
Which technical parameters ( voltage, etc.) will have the system? Will the whole area get fenced in and will get restricted area?

Please add these things also to List of HVDC projects!

Superconducting, what for?
The article isn't clear on how the superconducting aspect of the project is critical for its success. As far as I know, high voltage lines work the same for AC or DC. Maybe related to efficiencies of the AC/DC converters?--Hooperbloob (talk) 15:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

What HTS and cable design
Will it use some form of BSCCO (Bi-2223?) or YBCO ? - Rod57 (talk) 23:00, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Isolation is important ...
no. It'd be very simple to synchronise. If you can keep East and West at 60Hz independently, you can also do that in one grid. Hello, 21st century? The central European grid spans >4000km, from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and Poland. With DC interconnectors only you don't need synchronisation, right, and long distance HVDC interconnectors are cheaper in operation than long distance AC connections of the same power.

Of course with working high power long distance HVDC interconnectors, you could also synchonise and fully connect the grids on a lower power AC level, additionally.

The whole idea of this Superstation is bollocks, because if you have sufficiently powerful AC connections (East+West+Texas > 60GW, with a lot of losses on the way!) to the station for it to work at 30GW, you could also just connect them on the AC level. The total lenght of superconducting DC lines would have been a few kilometers, and six AC-DC and DC-AC converters on each side creating additional losses of hundreds of MW at full load. Completely unproductive, and definitely not "green".

The only reason why some s..heads were able to sell politicians and the public this idea was that nobody questioned the "cannot synchronize from coast to coast" assumption, which was perhaps true fifty years ago. And the same guys never wanted to actually build it, because it would have allowed to actually do the synchronization, and then others could have build local AC interconnects all along the grid borders, taking away a large part of the projected business. 46.232.229.52 (talk) 17:04, 23 October 2023 (UTC)