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摘要

There is a great head of water — and plenty of it — at James Bay on the north shore of Quebec. In raw heat, it is , equivalent to some 2,500 tons of coal per hour, ready to be converted to electricity. You are in Boston, Mass. How fast can you have some? Right away. The turbo-generators, transformers and rectifiers there put out 15,000 MW at bipolar ±450 KV DC for transmission to Montreal; DC because it avoids those massive wasteful capacitance currents in the lines that AC would cause. Near Montreal it is converted back to AC and distributed throughout Canada and the northeastern United States at the voltage of your choice.