In a cryogenic environment, near absolute zero, even copper is superconducting. A coil of it charges for storing power just like a battery or capacitor.
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…
U of Houston superconductivity project wins additional funding
Editor’s note: Superconducting generators and motors are some ways off, maybe a decade. But wire with the quality of superconduction might be closer and more useful, hence the significance of this report. A University of Houston engineering researcher and his team have received $900,000 in additional funding from the DOE for a wind-energy project that…