Re: high-voltage transmission losses

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 14:31 3/2/01 -0800, Larry Woolf wrote:
> The materials and cryogenic costs are prohibitive for high temperature
> superconductor transmission lines. /snip/ ... the
> SSC magnets were all to be made from NbTi- conventional low temperature
> superconductor.
>
> Larry

Talking about conventional superconductors, I hear that a rather
simple compound is now showing promise -  magnesium boride (38K);
In fact, as Sesame Street might put it,
 "let's hear it for the letter B."

Budko at Iowa State has been raising the threshold temperature
 with selected isotopes; meanwhile BaBar at Slac and Belle at
Kek are showing the B meson and its antiparticle are not decaying
in perfect harmony, time wise (but in good enough harmony with
the Standard Model, apparently);
and for a touch of International flavor, a real bomb at the Beeb
from the real IRA; and Brucellosis in British Berkshires, Beijings,
 and Belarus's. (Bad business, this porcine epidemic).



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
                Eureka!