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Usually alternating current (AC) transmission suffers lower losses than direct current (DC) , and thus, AC became the industry s
Usually alternating current (AC) transmission suffers lower losses than direct current (DC) , and thus, AC became the industry s
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2019-05-09
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Usually alternating current (AC) transmission suffers lower losses than direct current (DC) , and thus, AC became the industry standard. Some people, however, question that standard because over long distances high-voltage DC lines suffer lower losses than AC. Not only does that
make them better in their own right
, but employing them would allow electricity grids to be restructured in ways that would make wind power more attractive. That would reduce the need for new conventional(and polluting) power stations.
Wind power has some problems. You don’ t always get it where you want it and you don’ t always get it when you want it. The question of where the wind is blowing would no longer matter because it is almost always blowing somewhere. If it were windy in Spain but not in Ireland, current would flow in one direction.
Dealing with when the wind blows is a subtler issue
. For instance, an important part of Dr Schmid’ s continental grid is the branch to Norway. It is not that Norway is a huge consumer. Rather, the country is well supplied with hydroelectric plants. These are one of the few ways that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities. The power is used to pump water up into the reservoirs that feed the hydroelectric turbines. That way it is on tap when needed. The capacity of Norway’ s reservoirs is so large, according to Dr Schmid, that should the wind drop all over Europe—which does happen on rare occasions—the hydro plants could spring into action and fill in the gap for up to four weeks.
Put like this, a Europe-wide grid seems an obvious idea. That it has not yet been built is because AC power lines would lose too much power over such large distances. Hence the renewed interest in DC. Dr Schmid calculates that a DC grid of the sort he envisages would allow wind to supply at least 30% of the power needed in Europe. Moreover, it could do so reliably—and that means wind power could be used for what is known in the jargon as base-load power supply.
Though wind power has its opponents, too, its environmental virtues might be enough to swing things in its favour if it were also reliable. Indeed, a group of Norwegian companies have already started building high-voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany, though these are intended as much to sell the country’ s power as to accumulate other people’ s. And Airtricity—an Irish wind-power company—plans even more of them. It proposes what it calls a Supergrid. This would link offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish, North and Baltic seas with customers throughout northern Europe.
Why is Dr Schmid’ s continental grid located in Norway?
选项
A、To make use of the country’ s capacity of reservoirs so as to store temporary power.
B、To make use of the country’ s rich wind power so as to meet consumers, demand.
C、To make better use of the country’ s rich hydroelectric power to supply other European countries.
D、It is simply Dr Schmid’ s personal preference of that country.
答案
A
解析
细节题。文章第二段后半部分描述了史密德博士设计的大陆电网,其中指出选择挪威的原因不是因为这个国家缺乏足够的电能,而是这里有足够多的水库可以用来储存由风能转化而成的电能。故选A。
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