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Saving five percent (US) to thirty percent (generic less-developed country) of generated power in T&D losses.

There isn't any obviously-orders-of-magnitude-better application for room-temp-and-pressure superconductors apart from MRI scanners, and those aren't things that the average person would use every day, or even every week, even if they came in cereal boxes.



If they came in cereal boxes I wonder if it could help improve noninvasive BCI to the point of usability.




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