Breakthrough Superconducting Devices With High Temperature Superconductors

Kim, Harvard, and his fellow researchers have a promising candidate for the world’s first high-temperature, superconducting diode—essentially, a switch that makes current flow in one direction—made out of thin cuprate crystals. This would be the first superconducting switch made using higher temperature cuprate superconductors instead of lower temperature and more expensive superconductors. The team’s experiments …

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Markets and Future Costs of Superconducting Magnets and Superconducting Wire

Present-day volume prices of HTSs (high temperature superconducting) wire and tape range from $150 to $200/kA-m (kiloAmps per meter). Many analyses of the commercial viability of superconducting applications show that a conductor cost of $50/kA-m (kiloAmps per meter) is the tipping point for widespread application for electric power use. Jun 2023, Journal Science The prospects …

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Possibly the Beginning of Quantum Well Superconductors

I think the new regular pressure room temperature superconducting work will prove to be the start of the field of quantum well superconductors. NOTE: The South Korean paper still needs to be replicated and confirmed. Extraordinary claims need a lot of verification and study. The work can be mistaken or wrong. Other researcher are within …

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Billionaires $1.8 Funding for Commercial Fusion Maybe by 2030

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialize fusion energy. This money will be used construct, commission, and operate SPARC, the world’s first commercially relevant net energy fusion machine. They will also start work on ARC, the first commercial fusion power plant, which includes …

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