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Dylan16807 on Aug 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

Costs are not just money. There is an environmental cost to making and installing things.

Spending the same amount of money on green power generation would probably help the biosphere much more.

> making eg. solar farms in remote locations suddenly feasible

We can already get losses down to a couple percent per thousand kilometers. Those farms are already feasible.

usrbinbash on Aug 17, 2023 [–]

> We can already get losses down to a couple percent per thousand kilometers.

Yes, and if we could squeeze down these couple percent to a <1%, the same farm would be even better.

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