Following the Great Power Outage of 2003, the media devoted a great deal of attention to ideas of how the distribution grid system could be upgraded to carry bigger loads. One of the ideas put forth by (maybe) GE (I don't want to be sued if I'm misremembering the guilty party here) was to design power lines that would consist of exotic alloys that would enable the lines to carry loads that would bring them up to temperatures nearing red hot without sag or burnout. This is so stupid! If a conductor is heating up from the current flow, than it's too small for that current flow. Altering its chemistry to withstand continuous high temperatures would only serve to increase the wastage of energy by encouraging the production of all this waste heat. Duh! Hey, I'll take on one of their engineers' jobs at half the price.
