NYRI Technology Is Obsolete
After reading about the high speed super conducting cable in the post below I have to ask this simple question: Will the technology NYRI proposes to use be obsolete before it even gets used?
Yeah, in fact it is already obsolete now!
The cable unveiled by Pataki last week in Albany is just one example of this new type of cabling that makes the NYRI plan look as antique as a rotary telephone.
Here is another example (thanks Bill Viola for finding this) of modern transmission technology presented at the FERC technical conference in October 2004. (Check out pages 4-9 of the document) TransEnergyUS shows off its underground HVDC cable system that only requires a ROW that is 13 feet wide on average. And look, no ugly towers! The system has proven reliability throughout the world including a 110 mile long route in Australia operational since 2002. And it looks too good to be true but that 110 mile line cost only about 97 million US dollars.
So why is NYRI proposing a new power line using old outdated technology?