With the addition of pressure systems to GregTech it is time to introduce new forms of suffering to the player never seen before. Diamond Anvil Cells are machines used to create exotic materials using ridiculous amounts of pressure, up to 500 GPa. This is related to room temperature superconductors, which are known to work only under extreme pressures (unless Zalgo does something funny and finds an even exotic-er material)
Basically these room temperature superconductors could be the material for the final wires in the game and provide a more interesting gameplay mechanic instead of generic alloy #5,685 made from 57 different elements.
Various THEORETICAL room temperature superconductors:
These were mostly formed in a machine known as a Diamond Anvil Cell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell) which provides the massive pressures needed to create these materials and maintain their superconductivity.
I can think of 2 ways to implement these as superconductors.
First one is the unrealistic but relatively un-painful way where you can make these superconductor wires in a diamond anvil cell and can place them in the world and have them conduct electricity without any pressure.
Second one is the more realistic (but still not so realistic) and more painful way where the only way to transfer UIV, UXV, and OpV voltages is by connected multiblocks that need to be pressurized to ~500 GPa and contain the materials of the room temperature superconductors.
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With the addition of pressure systems to GregTech it is time to introduce new forms of suffering to the player never seen before. Diamond Anvil Cells are machines used to create exotic materials using ridiculous amounts of pressure, up to 500 GPa. This is related to room temperature superconductors, which are known to work only under extreme pressures (unless Zalgo does something funny and finds an even exotic-er material)
Basically these room temperature superconductors could be the material for the final wires in the game and provide a more interesting gameplay mechanic instead of generic alloy #5,685 made from 57 different elements.
Various THEORETICAL room temperature superconductors:
Metallic Hydrogen, Carbonaceous Sulfur Hydride, Lanthanum Decahydride, Actinium Decahydride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonaceous_sulfur_hydride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum_decahydride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydride#Superconduction
Notable Mention: Bilithium Magnesium Hexadecahydride (I could not find an article on this but it was mentioned at the bottom of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconductor)
These were mostly formed in a machine known as a Diamond Anvil Cell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell) which provides the massive pressures needed to create these materials and maintain their superconductivity.
I can think of 2 ways to implement these as superconductors.
First one is the unrealistic but relatively un-painful way where you can make these superconductor wires in a diamond anvil cell and can place them in the world and have them conduct electricity without any pressure.
Second one is the more realistic (but still not so realistic) and more painful way where the only way to transfer UIV, UXV, and OpV voltages is by connected multiblocks that need to be pressurized to ~500 GPa and contain the materials of the room temperature superconductors.