Talk:Gold Cable/@comment-83.84.137.199-20120615123812

the wiki states higher cables: "...suffer higher distance related energy losses..." which is only true in absolutes. If you send a large packet of energy the percent loss will be way lower than when sending more spaller packets of energy trough a lower tier cable.

Example:

Copper insulated over 10 blocks = 2 energy lost = 6.25% (2/32)

Gold cable insulated over 10 blocks = 5 energy lost = 3.904% (5/128)

So presuming you can send an efficient (maximum) amount of energy through a cable it will function better. Not sure how tot state this in a short way so it would fit the cable descriptions.