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World's longest superconductor cable
The "AmpaCity" project has been kicked off: The RWE Group and its partners are just about to replace a 1-kilometre-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Taking the juice for granted: Powering American cities in the new century
Barring the occasional thunderstorm, most Americans take the electric current behind their power buttons for granted, and assume the juice will be there when they're ready to fire up an appliance or favorite ...
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Unusual 'collapsing' iron superconductor sets record for its class
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland has found an iron-based superconductor that operates at the highest known temperature for a material ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Dutch team has solution for troubled ITER nuclear fusion reactor
(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Superconducting current limiter guarantees electricity supply of the Boxberg power plant
For the first time, a superconducting current limiter based on YBCO strip conductors has now been installed at a power plant. At the Boxberg power plant of Vattenfall, the current limiter protects the grid ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity
Wiring systems powered by highly-efficient superconductors have long been a dream of science, but researchers have faced such practical challenges such as finding pliable and cost-effective materials. Now ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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New spin on friction-stir
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Zhili Feng, Alan Frederic and Stan David in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Materials S&T Division have made significant progress toward a new metal processing technique, called ...
Jul 26, 2011 |
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A new dimension in materials research
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the future, physicists will be able to follow a new lead in their search for new materials for electronic components, for example. An international team of researchers headed by scientists ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Red wine offers clue to superconductive future
Japanese scientists at a boozy office party stumbled across a discovery they hope will help revolutionise efficient energy transmission one day: red wine makes a metal compound superconductive. ...
May 13, 2011 |
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Generator with superconductors
Siemens and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) plan to demonstrate that high-temperature superconductor technology is suitable for power generation in everyday operation. The research project, which ...
Mar 30, 2011 |
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New plastics can conduct electricity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered technique makes it possible to create a whole new array of plastics with metallic or even superconducting properties.
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Compact high-temperature superconducting cables demonstrated at NIST
A researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has invented a method of making high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables that are thinner and more flexible than demonstration HTS cables ...
Feb 11, 2011 |
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