At last!
The first practical superconducting power cables are now being installed
COMPARED with cars and pop music, electricity transmission is hardly the most glamorous subject on earth. But Detroit, well known for the first two, is about to make history in the third. Engineers are now installing a set of superconducting power cables beneath its streets.
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