As Londoners go about their business on the city’s streets and sidewalks, Evelyn and Cleopatra will be hard at work deep below the surface, tunneling through the ground to create a 32-kilometer (about 20 miles) “subterranean electricity superhighway.” The two […]
How to cut power line losses? Computer models aim for better insulation
Researchers have turned to supercomputers in an effort to find a way to fix a vexing inefficiency in today’s electricity grid: the loss of energy caused by less-than-perfect high-voltage insulators. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), up to […]