Re: high-voltage transmission losses

[Larry Woolf <larry.woolf@GAT.COM>]

The materials and cryogenic costs are prohibitive for high temperature
superconductor transmission lines.  There is one short length demonstration
project in Detroit - funded partially by DOE.  For more info, see
http://www.superconductors.org/uses.htm

This is completely different technology than was to be use in the SSC - the
SSC magnets were all to be made from NbTi- conventional low temperature
superconductor.

Larry



> A Sci Am  article discussed this -- described a test line -- some time ago.
I
> thought by now we'd have super conducting transmission lines  -- A "spin
off"
> from the SCSC?

> bc