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Extremely hard, the superconductors are a ceramic that is very brittle, it's quite hard to make a nice wire out of it. If a single break in a long length ruins
by neltnerb 9y ago
Extremely hard, the superconductors are a ceramic that is very brittle, it's quite hard to make a nice wire out of it. If a single break in a long length ruins the whole stretch then scaling up would be massively challenging, you can't just rely on melting and cooling to nicely even out issues during drawing a wire.
- theothermkn 9y agoThis exactly misses a significant feature of these new, high temp and high field superconductors: they are a mass manufactured flexible steel-backed tape. These are not the old ceramic superconductors.