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Supercables to the rescue
 Supercables to the rescue 8/6/2008 Are high-efficiency power lines in our future? Superconductor Technologies Inc. and the Los Alamos National Lab think so. STI announced that it and LANL have entered into a collaboration to apply STI's high-temperature superconductor materials expertise to LANL's research initiative to develop HTS coated conductors for power transmission lines. Currently, most power transmission lines are made of copper. If STI is right, HTS coated superconducting cables will offer higher capacity less energy loss to resistance. STI and LANL were scheduled to do a joint presentation at the DOE 2008 Annual Superconductivity for Electric Systems Peer Review on July 29-31. The DOE began its HTS program in 1992 to help U.S. companies become world leaders in HTS commercialization. The world's first commercial use of HTS cable occurred in Carrollton, Georgia. Today, there are about a dozen superconducting cable demonstration projects underway in North America, Asia and Europe, and a number of groups track HTS progress. << Back to News Join our online discussion forum and comment on this article!
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