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To: John M Connolly who wrote (625)	11/22/1998 8:03:00 AM
From: Wafa SHIHABI	Respond to of 1025

Superconductivity is the ability of certain metals and ceramics to conduct electricity at zero resistivity. This was proven possible more than 20 years ago at around 0 deg Kelvin (-273 deg centigrade), a very theoretical temperature level. High temperature superconductivity HTS is now conducted at -150 deg c, and some applications are happening at - 40 deg c. some very realistic temperatures. The field is starting to come out of the lab and into reality, with certain applications approaching commercialization now. The applications are in such diverse fields, that they do not depend on a single industry. They are also being developed by a slew of companies that your bet is not on one horse. Some sample applications: -Superconducting wire; capable of delivering 3,000 Amp/cm2. AMSC just signed a contract to install a 400 ft section to replace an existing city power supply cable in Detroit. A small step for man.... -SMES; a power quality device, which is designed to eliminate power glitches in plants such as electric arc furnaces or paper mills. AMSC has 2 testing and demonstration units installed in Europe and South Africa. The current unit they are building is capable of providing 1.7 megawatt-second of power. -MRI; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; improving the image quality and reducing the unit $ cost and size to a point where the unit can be installed in clinics and operated somewhat similar to an ultrasound unit. IMG has several units on sale already, and they are expanding the technology to be even used in food inspection for the food packaging industry. -Telecommunications; Improving the filtration efficiency in base station units for the wireless industry. A super conducting filter can increase the capacity of a base station by 15-40%. SCON had 11 units on trial in all of 97, an order for 25 more units in Q1 98 and received an order for 200 units in September. All with a single telecom operator. -Microprocessors; a subsidiary of IMG tested a K6 300MHZ microprocessor at -40 deg c. the machine ran as a 420 MHZ. 40% increase in speed. And the list goes on. As u can see, the industry is coming of age right now. It is also very under covered by analysts, and your bets are so hedged. The variety of fields it is attacking gives it endless scope. Almost all of the companies I follow have threads here, I invite you to take a look at some of them: AMSC, SCON, IMG, ISCO, Kryogenecs, and of course there are some majors such as Siemens and some Japanese companies. One more time, I apologize to the board, but I tend to agree with John that there is so little going on on this board, that we might as well discuss this topic. In addition, this is definatly not an attempt to hype up a company. Nonetheless, if anyone has any serious objections we can carry this offline. Best wishes to all