10kV Wire

The 10kV Wire is an enhanced version of   Blue Alloy Wire. It is used with the Voltage Transformer to transfer Blutricity power over longer distances with less loss.

The 10kV Wire will not carry power from RedPower generators normally. It will only carry power that is produced by a Voltage Transformer connected to a Blue Alloy Wire carrying regular-size packets (approximately 107.4 volts maximum.) These ~100-volt packets can then be transformed by the Voltage Transformer into packets with an upward limit of approximately 10,600 volts.

Resistance
Each 10kV wire/block has a resistance of 2 ohms, compared to the 0.02 ohms of resistance that regular Blue Alloy Wire has. Because of the law of resistive losses (Loss == Current^2 * Resistance), and because Bluetricity is made to (superficially) model real world electrical flow, this means that all current passed over 10kV wires produces 1% of the loss it would have incurred over Blue Alloy Wires ( == (Current / 100) ^ 2 * (Resistance * 100)), at least under optimal conditions: In practice, because of the greatly increased voltage, 10kV wire can pass current much faster than regular Blue Alloy Wire would over the same distance, and because losses are relative to both current and resistance, the higher current offsets some (but not all!) of the efficiency gains from using 10kV wire.

Capacitance
One unusual element of the functionality of 10kV wires is the time it takes for current to travel the distance of the wire. Real World electrical wires do not have (a statistically significant amount of) capacitance, but Bluelectric wires do. The immediate consequence of this quirk is that current takes a very long time to travel down newly placed 10kV wires, as the current is used to "fill up" the capacitance of the wires, which takes a very long time (much longer than regular Blue Alloy Wires, which have 1/100 the capacitance). Once 10kV wires have reached near the maximum capacitance, however, they return to normal levels of current flow, except without much of the loss that would occur using regular Blue Alloy Wire.