maybe they need another 50 years to figure out how to get around that.
Nuclear Energy
- Thread starter Strangelove
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Onnes discovered solid mercury was a superconductor in like 1911. I assume those are niobium-tin superconductors. Discovered in 1954. They are not exactly new. It is a pain because you need high current density in a tokamak magnet. Most higher temperature superconductors, the ones which can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, are useless for that.
I think YBCO tape is the current state of the art for high current density at 20K or something.
I think YBCO tape is the current state of the art for high current density at 20K or something.