On Wed, 31 May 2017 15:28:05 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Unlikely. We don't want to co-operate with our nearest neighbours, so
why think a world wide agreement possible?

Money talks...

But it won't happen until we have "sensible temperature" super
conductors.

That'll be a game changer, no losses, so you could move as much
energy as you can shove in all over the globe on a mesh made of
things the size of todays single fibre optic strand.

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Cheers
Dave.