No alternative to nuclear power

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4. Ok, you have more knowledge than the Siemens Techs

Yes, of course.

So all of the infrastructure; the step down transformers at district, area and local level; the poorly sited and routed cables; the choke points, the control circuits that keep the generation in phase; the demand routing (that needs the smart metering I was talking about); in-circuit surge control, demand surge control and environmental (lightning, solar storm) surge control is all "a bunch of wires".

Please inform Siemens and GE of this immediately! They are spending too much on their research and products.
Please inform the British and European Governments, part of whose strategy for reducing energy demand is dependent on Smart metering, that it's all "a bunch of wires".

Additionally you have falsely assumed I was talking about improvements to transmission, which I was not; I refered only to the control of transmission. BTW I am fully aware superconductors will not be on line for the foreseeable future but Very High Voltage direct current transmission is already being tried with some success in Europe.