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Superconductors have a limit on the current they can carry before the superconducting phase breaks down. This might put similar limits on the voltages.

I agree that the nature of this is entirely different to transmission losses, but I don't expect 230V lines carrying tens of thousands of amps. This would probably require excessive amount of SC material.



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