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From: haddock@ti-csl.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: New superconducting (Houston)
Message-ID: <14862@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 02:44:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 02:44:15 1987
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In article <503@puff.WISC.EDU> schumann@puff.WISC.EDU (Christopher Schumann) writes:
>This morning (Tuesday), I saw a small story on Headline News about some
>scientist at a Houston University (I think) that has made a great
>advancement in the practicality of superconducters.
>
>Well, What's the scoop?  What did he do, how will it affect *us*, and
>what should be known, etc, etc....
>

I heard the same thing on one of the local radidio stations here.  I
was still half asleep so the numbers are probably wrong but....  It
appears that the researchers have found a way to have superconductance
at relatively "high" temperatures.  What they meant by "high" is
they've found a way to use "cheap" liquid nitrogen to acheive
superconductance.  The great idea behind this is that liquid nitrogren
is about 10X cheaper than the liquid helium(?) and superconductance is
attained at 20X the temperature.  No immediate benefits (for the
public) are perceived but with more research hopefully a more
efficient means of transmitting electrical energy will be found via
the use of superconductance.

					-Rusty-
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