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It's been on my radar that HTS wire is now commercially available and has already made an impact in the planned development of dramatically smaller fusion react
by newnewpdro 9y ago
It's been on my radar that HTS wire is now commercially available and has already made an impact in the planned development of dramatically smaller fusion reactors. I also read reports of their use in massive electric motors used by navy vessels. Basically all these massive electromagnets can be made smaller, more powerful, and more efficient thanks to HTS wire.
They're already being used in the Tres Amigas project [1], though I haven't investigated what the scope of the application is there. I assumed it would be the power transmission since it seems likely to have the greatest losses due to the distance. It's clearly stated that American Superconductor is supplying the HTS wire for the project.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
- philipkglass 9y agoThe plan at Tres Amigas was to use superconducting equipment and short-range superconducting cables on the interconnection site. It's not replacing any long-range transmission with superconducting wire. You can see a diagram in the lower left of this article: http://www.tresamigasllc.com/docs/HTS-Cable-TA-Energy-Industry-Times-Nov-2010.pdf http://www.tresamigasllc.com/docs/HTS-Cable-TA-Energy-Indust... I say Tres Amigas "was" going to do this because the project seems dead. It lost a major partner in 2015, scaled back a lot, and the project site hasn't posted any updates since 2016.
- newnewpdro 9y agoThanks for the link to the pdf, I hadn't read that.