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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Superconducting Energy Storage
Message-ID: <16874@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 02:11:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 02:11:50 1987
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Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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In article <15644@gatech.gatech.edu> jeff@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Lee) writes:
<I had wondered what would happen to a superconducting device that was
<carrying, ... say 10000 amps at a few volts and something went wrong
<with the coolant. A previous posting mentioned something about some scorched
<earth and they weren't talking about anything close to 100000 watts.
<If they take the temperature all the way up to room temperature, these
<devices have the potential to fail in a truly catastrophic way.

Of course the military will be VERY interested in such applications.
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Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com