A superconductor is a material that allows electrons are basically electrical energy to go from place to place without any internal resistance. There's wires that are really complicated to engineer that have superconducting material at their core and they're surrounded by all kinds of cooling apparatus. This seems to be a material that you could basically like be like that copper wire and replacing it with this material and instantly get kind of an efficiency gain.

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