[slashdev]

At first I thought this was insane.

But I also think HTS superconductors have changed the game for fusion.

Picking an early adopter that could support higher prices than the grid makes sense.

This is super ambitious and difficult, but I wish you all the best in overcoming these challenges. Someone will, sometime.

Is now the time? Could be.

[whatshisface]

High temperature superconductors changed the game for fusion in 1986.

[slashdev]

But what it has done recently is allowed creation of much more powerful magnets. This is a new development, the practical application of these high temperature superconductors. I don’t know why it took so long to get there, but it has.

[howenterprisey]

HTS was available in ceramic form, but ceramics sorta suck to work with. So potential users had to wait for people to make them into wires, which was apparently a fat pain in the ass, and then for that technology to be commercialized, all of which took until the 2010s.