OT: UPS for FreeBSD

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 11/28/2014 8:12 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Real high voltage transmission
> lines using DC make sense.

Someone already tried that.  It doesn't work.  The conductors have to be 
impractically large to get a useful amount of current, and the distance 
loss is so high you can't build even a metro grid with it, let alone a 
regional grid or the long-distance transmission systems we use now.