Turboelectric Propulsion - Superconducting or Not?

When NASA talks about turboelectric distributed propulsion, it talks in terms of superconducting generators and motors in a hybrid wing-body concept aircraft it calls the N3-X. But there are other ways of approaching all-electric propulsion.

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