HTS magnet costs: YBCO epitaxial Rapid prototyping manufacturing method
HTS material is inexpensive, $200/kg.
Inexpensive manufacture would consist on layering HTS on structural plates with minimal winding!
- Largest cost of LTS magnets is cabling/insulating, winding.
- Superconductor volume allocation: less than 1% of structure
- If HTS at $1000/kg, and cost of structure is $40/kg, then cost of magnet is ~ $50/kg