Article is a couple of weeks old. AmSuper is one of the leaders in superconductor technology application.
The flip side to the whole energy issue is infrastructure. A fraction of what is generated by utilties actually reaches the consumer due to line losses and other inefficiences. Just improving the efficiency of our electric grid will be the equivalent of building new power plants with a great deal less investment.
A pic of the cables going into the ground:
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Good post. Hadn’t heard much from this company in a while.
2 posted on
05/13/2008 3:03:20 PM PDT by
RightWhale
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American Superconductor said the cable system, which consists of three individual HTS cables running in parallel...I presume this means it's a three-phase line.
The HTS cables also have very low impedance ...
Ain't this pretty much the definition of "superconductor".
Modern journalism strikes again.
3 posted on
05/13/2008 3:09:51 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
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High temp = 77Kelvin. Liquid nitrogen temps.
/johnny
4 posted on
05/13/2008 3:13:35 PM PDT by
JRandomFreeper
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A fraction of what is generated by utilties actually reaches the consumer due to line losses and other inefficiences. At a recent conference the figure given was 30% -- lost? or delivered?
6 posted on
05/13/2008 3:19:26 PM PDT by
sionnsar
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High temp superconducting materials (most of them) still require liquid nitrogen temps to operate properly. How do the keep these lines at these temps over long distances?
10 posted on
05/13/2008 4:07:34 PM PDT by
navyguy
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Maybe they could fire up Shoreham since they paid for it.
11 posted on
05/13/2008 4:11:19 PM PDT by
count-your-change
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