David Porter

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325 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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So the first piece is the energy supply and that's the generation.

Where are the electrons coming from?

Is it nuclear, power plant, natural gas, wind, solar, hydro?

Any of those sources produce electrons that go onto the grid.

Those electrons first go to the transmission system, which is the bulk carrier of electric energy all around the world.

It's very similar to a gas transmission pipeline.

It's like the big pipe that you're moving a huge volume through at a very high voltage.

Very much so.

That's very accurate.

Yes.

We do it at high voltage because it's more efficient.

Because the higher the voltage, the lower the current for the total energy that you're transmitting.

I got you.

And the biggest strain on energy losses is the higher the current is being pushed through that wire,

the more losses there are.

So it's much more efficient.

Long distances, very long distances.

Also, the transmission system is used to directly serve large loads, such as data centers.

Right.

So that is another aspect of the transmission system.

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