Ok, I see a lot of false info in here. EE chiming I’m here.
Minor efficiency improvements: consumer electronics, batteries, solar panels, CPUs/GPUs
Major efficiency improvements: power transmission, wireless power transmission, electric motors, high density electro-magnets (used in fusion, MRI, etc), ‘traditional’ energy generation techniques that spin a thing to produce electricity (wind, nuclear, hydro, gas, (even coal, but let’s pretend coal doesn’t exist)).
Outside of my expertise, but I’m speculating major improvements: wired data transmission, wireless data transmission (antenna tech)
The implications that excite me the most are mostly around transportation.
-Mag-Lev trains would be super cool!
-rail gun style space launch systems
-cars with close to 100% regenerative braking (superconductors+capacitors for temporary energy storage) You could stop at a red light and accelerate back to the same speed ‘for net-zero energy’. THAT IS BANANAS! A current conventional gas car burns fuel for ~30% efficiency, the other 70% is waste heat. Then after you’ve done all that inefficient work to get moving you hit the brakes and USE FRICTION TO TURN YOUR MOMENTUM INTO MORE WASTE HEAT! Bugs the bajesus out of me! Superconductors would make it much more practical to recoup energy when stopping a vehicle.
Only major thing you didn’t mention that I noticed is applications for quantum locking. From my understanding, superconductors would allow us to make frictionless, lubricationless “ball” bearings
You touched on regenerative breaks, but what about for EV’s with power management? Will we see longer ranges on the same platform due to needing less power from the battery or is that going to require a full redesign
You certainly would see longer ranges for the same battery if you just swapped the cabling and motor over to superconducting versions, but there are kind of two scenarios at play here.
You have highway driving where a lot of your losses are mechanical due to high sustained speeds (air resistance and friction). Those wouldn’t go away, but your “electrical to mechanical” losses would be reduced, so you’d see modest improvements.
Then you have around town driving where your losses from accelerating and decelerating are much larger than the mechanical losses (air resistance and friction). Here with proper design changes I think you would see spectacular improvements in efficiency.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t help much with the EV ‘range anxiety’ issue haha. Go figure.
I don’t have range anxiety lol. I think once most people get in an EV they would realize the anxiety isn’t needed. But seeing the boosts to range does help with that anxiety. I’ve been watching this and the solid state battery tech for a bit now. I’m not an expert in either but I feel like with solid state batteries finally hitting the market and now this, driving could be revolutionized in less than 10 years
Ok, I see a lot of false info in here. EE chiming I’m here.
Minor efficiency improvements: consumer electronics, batteries, solar panels, CPUs/GPUs
Major efficiency improvements: power transmission, wireless power transmission, electric motors, high density electro-magnets (used in fusion, MRI, etc), ‘traditional’ energy generation techniques that spin a thing to produce electricity (wind, nuclear, hydro, gas, (even coal, but let’s pretend coal doesn’t exist)).
Outside of my expertise, but I’m speculating major improvements: wired data transmission, wireless data transmission (antenna tech)
The implications that excite me the most are mostly around transportation. -Mag-Lev trains would be super cool! -rail gun style space launch systems -cars with close to 100% regenerative braking (superconductors+capacitors for temporary energy storage) You could stop at a red light and accelerate back to the same speed ‘for net-zero energy’. THAT IS BANANAS! A current conventional gas car burns fuel for ~30% efficiency, the other 70% is waste heat. Then after you’ve done all that inefficient work to get moving you hit the brakes and USE FRICTION TO TURN YOUR MOMENTUM INTO MORE WASTE HEAT! Bugs the bajesus out of me! Superconductors would make it much more practical to recoup energy when stopping a vehicle.
Only major thing you didn’t mention that I noticed is applications for quantum locking. From my understanding, superconductors would allow us to make frictionless, lubricationless “ball” bearings
How much force can one of these locks take without slipping?
You touched on regenerative breaks, but what about for EV’s with power management? Will we see longer ranges on the same platform due to needing less power from the battery or is that going to require a full redesign
You certainly would see longer ranges for the same battery if you just swapped the cabling and motor over to superconducting versions, but there are kind of two scenarios at play here.
You have highway driving where a lot of your losses are mechanical due to high sustained speeds (air resistance and friction). Those wouldn’t go away, but your “electrical to mechanical” losses would be reduced, so you’d see modest improvements.
Then you have around town driving where your losses from accelerating and decelerating are much larger than the mechanical losses (air resistance and friction). Here with proper design changes I think you would see spectacular improvements in efficiency.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t help much with the EV ‘range anxiety’ issue haha. Go figure.
I don’t have range anxiety lol. I think once most people get in an EV they would realize the anxiety isn’t needed. But seeing the boosts to range does help with that anxiety. I’ve been watching this and the solid state battery tech for a bit now. I’m not an expert in either but I feel like with solid state batteries finally hitting the market and now this, driving could be revolutionized in less than 10 years