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[zapkitty]

Just a note: the supercons won’t generate heat in and of themselves like a regular electromagnet would. The way they heat up is conduction via their physical contacts and radiation from adjacent structures… and these particular magnets are wrapped around a plasma rocket engine operating for weeks on end.

Well, there’s a caveat… if their electromagnetic limits are exceeded the supercon effects break down and the material returns to being a normal conductor and will heat up rapidly… quite rapidly… very very very rapidly… a job for Joe Viskocil, methinks 🙂

But potential pyrotechnics aside, the supercons will stay cold except for what heat is introduced into them by conduction or radiation so they will need to be isolated somehow and engineering such thermal isolation is where the power costs will come in, I think.