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Article #17605Re: Superconducting Energy Storage
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Mon, 25 May 1987 22:29
Date: Mon, 25 May 1987 22:29
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One of the things that was not stated in all the hoopla about high
temperature superconducters was that the current density of the
devices is relatively small. The number I hear was something on the
order of 10 to 15 mA. Which is not all that usefull in generating
huge magnetic fields. The current is limited by a lack of free
electrons in the ceramic material. Any attempt to increace the
current causes some of the 'non-free' electrons to get involved and
the material heats up and stops super conducting. The paper in
Sunnyvale had an article on one person seeing super conducting
effects at dry ice temperatures although they couldn't isolate the
the material and reproduce it.
--Chuck McManis
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Superconducting Energy Storage Message-ID: <19635@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 25-May-87 18:29:23 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.19635 Posted: Mon May 25 18:29:23 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 03:49:39 EDT References: <226@ndmath.UUCP> <7766@orchid.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 15 Keywords: Super Conducting, perfect batteries Summary: Not much current in these puppies