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Probably not, unless it goes through a few hundred miles of very valuable land, without any power takeoffs.



Perhaps we'll see it used more in places like California, where the land itself isn't so valuable where HVAC runs, but the risk of combustion and cost of remediation is so high it's cheaper to run HVDC underground where it can't start costly fires that bankrupt utilities.




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