Next Big Future: 195K superconductor at dry ice temperatures
A dry-ice temperature superconductor... what will that do for power transmission? Ah. Here's a superconducting power line using liquid nitrogen... they have to keep their line below -200F for it to work... but a 195Kelvin conductor raises that to about -110F. That'd be considerably easier to design for, I would think.
Maybe we WILL be able to make it to the next level before we're wiped out...
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Faster, please!
This is the sort of thing that needs X-prizes by it... room temperature as the goal. Put a nice, fat, juicy $10 billion reward on the technology to produce room temperature superconductors that expires in 10 years... my bet is that someone, some company, some group, would find a way to do so and advance this area of materials science immensely.
You figure out how to do it, demonstrate it (say with a half-mile length of the stuff operating at house current levels with zero loss) and you get the prize.
Posted by ajacksonian | July 20, 2008 9:53 PM
Posted on July 20, 2008 21:53