> Fires, particularly house fires would become less common as wires simply stop conducting when they are overloaded. I don't know enough about how this materia

> Fires, particularly house fires would become less common as wires simply stop conducting when they are overloaded. I don't know enough about how this material behaves, but a superconductor "quench"* can be pretty catastrophic. I could see a room temperature superconductor battery causing fires from a quench. *: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_quench https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_...