Re: Next-generation high-Tc superconducting wires debut in the power grid

Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Next-generation high-Tc superconducting wires debut in the power grid
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_1/30_1.shtml

Electric power companies are demonstrating the capacity of new
flexible wire to deliver more current in less space and to limit
power surges.

January 2008, page 30

Somewhere under Albany, New York, 350 meters of chilled
high-temperature superconducting cable is delivering electricity at
three to five times the capacity of copper.

Downstate, below the bustling streets of New York City, Consolidated
Edison is making room to install space-saving HTS technology with
security features in one of the world's largest systems of
underground electric cables, some 34 000 kilometers of them below
Manhattan alone.

See: http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_1/30_1.shtml

This is basically old news other than the latest installation uses the
latest wire.

The only reason it is being done at all is that the outrageous cost of
the cable is far exceeded by the stupendeously outrageous cost of building
bigger conduits for ordinary cable.


--
Jim Pennino

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