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Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by qcj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:12PM (#20812090)
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.
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Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by velosol on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:05PM (#20815316)
A 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-proje...

[2 with follow-up presentation]: https://snf.ieeecsc.org/abstracts/stp475-ampacity-project-%E...

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Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by lachlan-sneff on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:22PM (#20812194)
With current technology, definitely.
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