Self-cooling conductors

           Driver Coil Material (DCM), produces a cooling effect by converting high temperature waste heat into work, in the form of a field distortion, and this chills the material to temperature which it can turn into work, which are typically only a few degrees Kelvin. Conventional high temperature super conductors at room temperature retain there superconductivity, but many of the common or hardwearing types have upper temperature limits, beyond which their conductivity drops drastically.

A simple combination of superconductor with DCM provides a final composite material that self cools even in high temperature environment, and this effect is permanent and self continuing. The finished product can now be used in situations where hardwearing superconductors could not have other wised performed such as in high temperature environments. Though the cooling effect of this material might act to lower environmental temperature which is not always desired, and either the conductor has to be replaced with perishable super high temperature superconductors or this composite has to be insulated.

DCM is very hardy to temperature but is susceptible to physical damage, and no highly malleable pure DCM has ever been discovered, although particles of DCM can be set in other more flexible materials and braided with superconductor cables. The more common application is to scatter DCM particles through conductor material, the final cooling effect is far more distributed through the material and removes hot and cold point loading more effectively. The cooling effect can be controlled by adjusting the amount of DCM introduced into the conductor.

Cooling the material directly is simpler than attaching periphery cooling units to the superconductor, though these accessory units are used on high load conductors (that is conductors which expect very high temperature load).