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This is over 4x longer than the longest undersea cable in the world
So 15.75% of the electricity would just vanish. That takes the shine off it a bit although if the price difference is big enough it would still be worth doing.
Well, even 84% sunshine transmitted is still rather shiny and is more than what is available at night.
And 1k km longer than the existing longest line