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Technology Stocks : American Superconductor (AMSC)

AMSC 35.70

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To: semi_infinite who wrote (728)	8/22/2011 5:06:39 PM
From: Doren	of 973

Good question. No one knows. They sell generator designs & license patents(?), pod engines or designs for shipping tankers. They acquired this technology in a buyout. This is where they make the most money? They just lost Sinoval (China) as a customer hence the collapse of their stock price. Some think Sinoval is going to appropriate their tech. They sell superconducting cable systems for the electrical grid and superconducting wire/ribbon. A substantial amount of electrical power transmitted through the grid over aluminum cable is lost as heat energy. So far their tech is only cost effective at central locations. They also have unknown proprietary knowledge about superconducting materials, no one knows what they have or where it will lead. The holy grail of superconducting is room temperature superconductors, which would change our entire economy, but of course they have to be flexible to be usable, hence their current use of ribbon wound wire, and that must be cooled by liquid nitrogen I think. Mysterious company.

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