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Yonnie3

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4. EDIT: I also read that Turner wanted to build a wind farm around there

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Mon Oct 18, 2021, 10:42 AM

Oct 2021

but no way to connect to the grid. I don't recall where. I was focused on that 2100 MWatts.

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The idea for the Soo Green Line sprung from a plan years ago by CNN founder Ted Turner to build a wind farm on his South Dakota property. With no transmission option, Trey Ward, a lawyer working for Turner, developed the idea for a long-distance underground power line.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/unique-underground-power-line-would-send-renewable-energy-from-midwest-to-eastern-markets/

South Dakota isn't all that near Mason City so it is the concept they are crediting to Trey Ward/Turner

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Unique underground power line would send renewable energy from Midwest to Eastern markets [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 OP

I was wondering the capacity of the line but it was not in article. Yonnie3 Oct 2021 #1

It's probably in there, and I left it out. I'll go back and add that if I can. Thanks. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 #2

Mason City - Biofuels Yonnie3 Oct 2021 #3

EDIT: I also read that Turner wanted to build a wind farm around there Yonnie3 Oct 2021 #4

Mason City Iowa is on an odd eastern extension of the Southwest Power Pool hunter Oct 2021 #5

I know you worked on this. Why is HVAC unsuitable for long-distance mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 #6

Simple explanation: Water and wet earth conduct electricity. hunter Oct 2021 #7

Thanks. NT mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2021 #8