High-Temp Superconducting Tape

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 27, 2004 @03:17PM from the if-only-it-was-silver-and-tearable dept.

DrLudicrous writes "The NYTimes is running a little overview of the current state of mass produced superconducting materials. A company named Superpower (another blurb on them here) is making a layered superconducting tape out of ceramic materials- ceramics that are high-temperature superconductors (no resistance at liquid nitrogen temperatures, 77K). This is much cheaper to maintain than technologies based on superconducting metals, which tend to require liquid helium (~4 Kelvin) temperatures. A note of contention: the article mentions that superconductivity is not well understood -- high-temperature superconductors are not, but classical 'low-temperature' superconductors are well-described under the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory."

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This is a holler to all the homies back home by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-27 15:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yo, this is a holler to my homies, the pimps and hoes of Boston, Massachussets

Good job, ya'll, this is a haller for GNU Foundation, for big pimping RMS, yeah, man, peace!

Any of you homies are in LA welcome to come up by my place, my bling-bling, my Hammer and my bitches are all yours, GNU Foundation.

Respect!
REAL TROLL!!! by PaulBu · 2004-04-27 16:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

(Thorugh got the FP... ;-( )

Please mod accordingly...

Paul B.