SUPERCONDUCTING WIRES

摘要

Venkat Selvamanickam, director of the Applied Research Hub and the M.D. Anderson chair professor of the department of mechanical engineering, University of Houston, is developing a technology with high temperature superconducting wires that could revolutionize the way power is generated, transported and used.rnAlmost anything in the power grid-cables, transformers, motors, generators-can be more efficient by using high temperature superconducting wires, he said. Superconducting power cables can transmit up to 10 times more power than traditional copper cables without the significant losses of traditional cables and are considered environmentally friendly. Superconducting fault current limiters can enable uninterrupted power transmission when conventional circuits will otherwise succumb to outages in events such as lightning storms.