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I have the feeling it will be more economical to just use a low-temperature superconductor and cool it down with a closed-cycle cryocooler, rather than try to g
by qcj 7y ago
I have the feeling it will be more economical to just use a low-temperature superconductor and cool it down with a closed-cycle cryocooler, rather than try to get a large enough pressure vessel that can maintain such high pressures.
- lachlan-sneff 7y agoWith current technology, definitely.
- velosol 7y agoA few years ago, that was the thinking when a 'high temperature' (much colder than room temperature) superconducting cable was trialed in Germany [1]. [1]: https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-distribution/ampacity-project https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-distribution/ampacity-proje... [2 with follow-up presentation]: https://snf.ieeecsc.org/abstracts/stp475-ampacity-project-%E2%80%93-update-world%E2%80%99s-first-superconducting-cable-and-fault-current https://snf.ieeecsc.org/abstracts/stp475-ampacity-project-%E...