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From the sound of it, you'll probably be able to transmit much lower amounts of electricity over a much longer distance in a conductor, and expend less effort sending the weak transmission.

200 amps proportional to an amount of work, measured in watts. If the wire demands less work, but you expend a constant amount of work, you'll just be sending that many more electrons to the other side of the wire. Like hitting a baseball with a baseball bat in fresh air, as opposed to under water.

I guess that means it's a super conductor, or maybe just a really good conductor? Did they say zero resistance, or only very low resistance?



First off in the scenario you're describing it makes no sense to assume a constant voltage, so you shouldn't be conflating amps and watts.

Second, the amount of watts going through a wire is not at all the same as the amount of watts being dissipated/expended in a wire. You're assuming that it's being used as a space heater, and it's not. The baseball is going through a very thin or empty environment and 99+% of the energy is still there at the other end.




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