Editor’s note: This development may be useful to the wind industry as it looks for ways to store excess wind generated power. Essentially, the flywheel is a mechanical battery. The Railway Technical Research Institute (hereinafter called “RTRI”) and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. have been the first in the world to succeed in developing a high-temperature…
SuperPower and partners report progress in energy device demo projects
Editor’s note: Commercially available and sufficiently inexpensive superconducting material will provide great benefit to power generators, transmission equipment, and consumers alike. It will eventually reduce the amount of power lost from generation to consumption, which means less of it will be needed, most likely even after the economy starts growing again. DOE Smart…