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Re:HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak ... by TheDudeMan on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:40PM (#40763927)
Bunch of projects in the works. But building HVDC lines is not cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects

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Re:HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak ... by Tade0 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @02:57AM (#40765295)
Same goes for nuclear power plants really.

A 2.5GW undersea HVDC line costs $2.5mln/km.

The cheapest nuclear power plant in Europe is the Ostrovets power plant in Belarus, the cost of which was $11bln for a 2.4GW plant.

For that money you could buy a 2.5GW HVDC line spanning the entire EU.

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