[TheProbes]

There's no such thing as a room temperature super-conducting magnet. You are talking about "high temperature" magnets, which are YBCO tape magnets. High temperature, in this case, means about -290 degrees F.

The next breakthrough that will come will be YBCO powder-in-tube wires, that will allow much stronger fields than currently. They'll be here within a decade, probably much less, as working prototypes exist now.

[extropy]

Anything that is warmer than liquid nitrogen is room temp for scientists.

It's easy to produce, handling is well understood and cheap.

[ppaattrriicckk]

Yeah, you're right. That was a typo and now I can't correct it.

I'm not sure what "high room temperature" would even entail :)

[childintime]

> -290 degrees F

-273.15°C == −459.67°F

[ricardobeat]

I think they were referring to the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, at around -196°C, not being cooled by nitrogen being what makes them "high temperature".