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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by heisenzombie on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:35PM (#36965333)
Minor nitpick — "now we can run 1 billion amps at 100V" — there is a limit to how much current you can put down a superconductor. For example I think commercial YBCO superconductor tape will do roughly 1000A/mm^2 (and even that requires being significantly below its critical temperature).

That’s a pretty high current density compared to what’s feasible with copper — don’t get me wrong — but a billion amps would still require a pretty huge cable even with a superconductor.

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by tomxor on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:44AM (#36967046)
Presumably everything in the chain, every junction, would also need to be a pure super conductor? Anything else would be susceptible to instantly melting or vaporising.

So unless someone comes up with super conducting welding I guess that would mean no junctions.

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by SomeoneFromCA on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:43AM (#36969145)
Not only that, the magnetic field around the wire at 1 bln amps will be way too large. It will like pick up nails from the ground easily.