AC/DC Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Plasma Switch for More Efficient Long-Distance Power Transmission https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plasma-switch-efficient-power-transmission-20180818/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plasma-switch-efficient-power-transmission-20180818/#respond Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:10:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66937 The General Electric (GE) company is developing an advanced plasma switch that will make a conversion of high-voltage DC to high-voltage AC more efficiently, enabling reduced-cost transmission of long-distance power. Additionally, substations along the power route will reduce the voltage of AC current to low-voltage before it reaches consumers’ devices. We use low-voltage alternating current […]

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