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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
That's pretty much the most irrelevant thing I've ever heard.
Fistly, I don't think anyone has ever seriously proposed building electrical transmission lines out of superconductors. It's just logistically ridiculous to cool that large of a system.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbroo...ductor_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_Project
As for proposing there has been some proposals involving liquid hydrogen pipelines with superconducting cores from hydrogen energy economy proponents.
But that's kind of my point with having a single solar generation field powering an entire continent; you have to get the electricity from the field to everywhere else, and regular transmission gets worse the further you have to transmit it. I was trying to make the point of a single solar field being a huge engineering challenge.
But point taken and I agree with you, overcoming transmission loss with superconducting cables is definitely non-trivial.
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Secondly, how the heck is nitrogen not being a renewable resource relevant?
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You are right of course, for some reason I was talking about liquid nitrogen but I was thinking about liquid helium.