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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by tsimionescu on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:38AM (#36876020)
The numbers I found on a quick search are 3% loss per 1000 km for HVDC lines. That's a pretty huge loss for the 20k+ km lines you'd need to transmit power from daytime to nighttime areas on the globe.
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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by yyyk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:05AM (#36876297)
I thought these were mostly fixed conversion losses, but checking this again you're right, it's 3% per 1000km (not including the conversion loss at the stations).
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