Total electricity lost in transport from powerplant to the home is about 10%. There is a test project for a superconductor 50km powerline in South Korea.
I don't think it will ever be cost and ressource-effective to switch electricity to that. It's also a nightmare scenario for cooling system failures causing very long blackouts.
Everything about repairing a broken cable will be alot more complex and expensive.
We're headed into a Competence crisis. Switching energy distribution to something so highly complex and delicate is begging for major fuck-ups.
High-voltage transport loss are small, 2% to 4%, the biggest loss is after the switch to low-voltage for close distribution.
You need to use alot of energy to cool the superconductor. Is it going to break-even? Scrape some energy after counting cooling? How is that going to justify the costs?
For now, under very high pressure, there is a superconductor under 92°K, which means it can be cooled to that state with liquid nitrogen (Nitrogen (edit :) boiling point is 77°K ), making its use financially accessible.
The need for very high pressure limits use.
Superconductors are already used for high definition Magnetic Resonance Imaging
CERN's Large Hadron Collider ( scientific research )
Total electricity lost in transport from powerplant to the home is about 10%. There is a test project for a superconductor 50km powerline in South Korea.
I don't think it will ever be cost and ressource-effective to switch electricity to that. It's also a nightmare scenario for cooling system failures causing very long blackouts.
Everything about repairing a broken cable will be alot more complex and expensive.
We're headed into a Competence crisis. Switching energy distribution to something so highly complex and delicate is begging for major fuck-ups.
High-voltage transport loss are small, 2% to 4%, the biggest loss is after the switch to low-voltage for close distribution.
You need to use alot of energy to cool the superconductor. Is it going to break-even? Scrape some energy after counting cooling? How is that going to justify the costs?
For now, under very high pressure, there is a superconductor under 92°K, which means it can be cooled to that state with liquid nitrogen (Nitrogen (edit :) boiling point is 77°K ), making its use financially accessible.
The need for very high pressure limits use.
Superconductors are already used for high definition Magnetic Resonance Imaging
CERN's Large Hadron Collider ( scientific research )
There are applications for nuclear energy.
A few short powerlines for testing technology.
Thanks, are you a bot though?
Not a bot, just an akward human.
Cheers.