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To: DMaA who wrote (2311)	5/18/2001 12:53:23 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Superconductors are only appropriate in micro electronic circuitry where the watt per unit conduit cross section is small. In power applications where electro-mechanical devices of ft-lb scale like washing machines need to be driven, superconductors would raise the price of the device by 10,000%. It's so ridiculously false to talk about superconductors in long distance big power conductance, that you wonder if the guy had a clue about his specialty. As far as superconductors launching a technological revolution, that's another remarkably stupid comment. This is some form of blind extrapolation or a failure to understand the basic elementary physics of these materials. Maybe I should say economics. Superconductors won't be coming down in price ever to a point that they displace other cheaper effective technologies. Superconductors are specialty materials which have an extremely narrow application.

To: DMaA who wrote (2311)	5/19/2001 12:57:48 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 24758

They will spur an industrial revolution for sure, if ones are invented that are reasonably good materials and superconduct at room temperature. That's an immediate Nobel prize in Physics. Not that I know of ones "already in the pipeline". The high-temperature superconductors require liquid nitrogen to keep them cool, and are ceramics, tough to make wires of. Other superconductors need even lower temperature and liquid helium. Makes them kind of expensive to use.