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> What we really need is more capacity, which this material as presented doesn't seem to help with. I thought one of the benefits of superconducting wires was
by criddell 3y ago
> What we really need is more capacity, which this material as presented doesn't seem to help with.
I thought one of the benefits of superconducting wires was that they could carry a lot more. Is that generally not true of superconductors?
- paholg 3y agoI believe one of the properties of the alleged room-temperature suoercinductor is that it's only a superconductor at low currents.
- madsciencetist 3y agoSuperconductors have zero resistance up to some quench current, so you can’t just put infinite current through a superconductor. If the quench current is low, the superconductor is not practical. Even practical superconductors might have a quench current only 4x what you’d put through traditional copper before the ohmic losses become too high.