Taking into account the cost reduction in a near future, the SC conductor cost could be rather low, half a dollar per kV A.
The optimal conductors' sizes are determined by minimizing an objective function (total cost comprising of conductor depreciation cost and annual cost of losses) subject to the constraints on voltage at end load points and maximum current carrying capacity of the feeder segments (branches).
Conductors will cost about £62,000 for each bus, or £37m extra a year.
Constructing the transmission system for the La Grande Phase One, part of the James Bay Project, took 12,500 towers, 13 electrical substations, 10000 km of ground wire, and 60000 km of electrical conductor at a cost of C$3.1 billion alone.
Furthermore, in order to achieve the lower cost, the architecture of the coated conductor with a low cost buffer/substrate system has been developed.
It allows a flexible tradeoff between operating temperature and length of conductor to produce a cost-optimized design with the best currently available conductor.
He said he wanted to thank Livingstone and Paddick, "my two colleagues in a strange triumvirate who have been trundling around London's church halls and TV studios violently disputing the meaning of multiculturalism and the exact costs of conductors".
In order to fabricate superconducting coated conductors with lower cost, fabrication processes are required high material yield.
However, one critical factor limiting the commercial applications of superconducting coated conductors is the significant manufacturing costs involved in the processing of the complex layered buffers and the subsequent epitaxial growth of superconducting coated conductors.
We have investigated a low production cost anhydrous proton conductor consisting of a composite of chitosan, one of the world's discarded materials, and methanediphosphonic acid (MP) having a high proton exchange capacity.
