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Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by nine_k on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:54PM (#17929463)
I suppose that a lot of such transmission lines should be superconductive, if only to help put enough electricity through physically more narrow channels.

Even with modern high-temp superconductors, it's a lot of expensive infrastructure, a lot of protective redundancy, and a lot of maintenance.

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Re:Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the... by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:19PM (#17929639)
> Even with modern high-temp superconductors, it's a lot of expensive infrastructure, a lot of protective redundancy, and a lot of maintenance.

Which means lots of local jobs, which may not turn out so bad in the short term.

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