🚀 go-pugleaf

Good ol' blobs of silicon. All the power between France and the UK is
rectified to DC and then inverted back to AC to avoid several problems
such as the huge reactive power that would be required to charge and
dis-charge an underwater cable (not the best way to reactively compensate either
grid). You can use the 3ph fw-rectifier as an inverter too, depending on who
is feeding who. Nice.

The fact that we are 50Hz and France is 60Hz might be observed too. :)

See, say, Landers for some nice piccies of this.

This is too expensive for full-scale dc power as the inverter p.f.
can be pretty poor if the firing angle is too great, and the "blobs"
of Si are pretty big. Using ac and a transformer to tap-off to small
local communities is still much cheaper in general, so ac for now.