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Maybe we can get to some happy medium where it's a practical level of pressure and cooling, not quite room temperature but still something we can use.
by goda90 7y ago
Maybe we can get to some happy medium where it's a practical level of pressure and cooling, not quite room temperature but still something we can use.
- nine_k 7y agoLiquid nitrogen is almost that already. It's readily available, reasonably cheap, and you just need Styrofoam for the bulk of the insulation. The superconducting material itself is expensive, brittle, hard to fabricate, and hard to work with.
- heisenzombie 7y agoStandard "high-temperature" superconducting wire (e.g. YBCO) isn't actually all that bad to handle or wind. You buy it extruded in a metal matrix (usually copper), and treat it only a little bit more gently than standard copper wire.