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[Rhinoz8142]

A question about Superconductor

''Explain why the development of higher temperture superconductor is of vital importance if the technology is to come into everyday use in society"

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[strawberrye]

A good start to get you thinking is that if we have to constantly cool things down to their critical temperature(super-conductors) to get them working, the cooling cost is very prohibitive, particularly if we wish to use it as electricity transmission lines, imagine the cooling costs as well as the expense of placing these new infrastructure is going to cost-it will override any potential benefits we can get from using super-conductors. Hence, if you have high temperature conductors, you don't need to waste so much money in cooling the thing-and its application would become much more economically advantageous and feasible for a range of its possible applications, whether it be medical, electrical or otherwise

 

[anomalousdecay]

Just one thing to add, even when you cool them to lower temperatures, you have to maintain them at those temperatures which is very expensive (if it was an instant cooling thing, then it would be quite easy, but the maintaining of those temperatures is the source of difficulty).