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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (71479)	7/9/2005 9:34:25 AM
From: Casaubon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

room temp is an important milestone because then you can transmit energy through land lines without an external cooling source. This would allow us to move energy without dissipation waste in transit. I'm somewhat skeptical that it can be done economically. Of course, there will be niche markets (and such break through technologies also create new markets, regardless of the price).

To: William H Huebl who wrote (71479)	7/9/2005 4:00:56 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

I totally agree. You need something like that, or even more. You can't transport any current at slightly below transition temperature. An electric current generates magnetic field, which in turn lowers transition temperature. Now, guess what happens when a superconducting wire carrying a huge current stops being superconducting? BOOM! -ng- Now, the good message is that the critical field B is proportional to Tc^2. So, the higher the Tc, the higher the current. At least, theoretically -g-.