Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sfasfsafd 2577 days ago
Also, super conductors are limited by the amount of magnetic field, and therefore current they can carry [0] (above that limit they become normal conductors). Lowering T bellow Tc, increasing P increases the amount of current you can carry.

Point is, they're kinda useless for transmission.

[0] MRI magnets are superconducting for the efficiency of superconductors, not for the field strength! The strongest magnets are not made of superconductors but out of copper pipes: electrical conductors with coolant pumped through them!