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IN the Electrical Review of October 20, H. Rissik shows that some of our early notions about the transmission of electric power must be modified. In the past no difficulty was at first experienced in utilizing the line conductors to the full extent of their carrying capacity. Transmission distances were short and the power to be transmitted amounted to only a fow thousand kilowatts. As time went on and transmission voltages and distances gradually increased, the view became common that any technical limitation to the amount of power that could be transmitted was to be looked for in the nature of the generating plant and transformers, rather than in those of the transmission lino itself. It was seen that there was no longer a definite line voltage for a given power and distance giving the lowest transmission costs, which diminished as the voltage that could be used increased. Other characteristics of the electric plant had to be taken into account.
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Possibilities of Alternating Currents for Long-Distance Transmission. Nature 144, 988–989 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144988a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144988a0