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Originally Posted by malloyd
Note that an "outlet" that will carry 40 MW is *huge*, the connecting wires on it need to be almost a foot across - or bigger if you want to make them out of superconductors.
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This is true (well, at least I assume it is - I lack any electrical engineering knowledge). Personally, I'd probably handwave this with some superscience or something, and assume that a TL 10 magi-tech culture can build somewhat more space efficient multi-megawatt cables.