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Real World High-Temperature Superconductor Engine

Posted by timothy on from the now-for-the-hybrid-cars dept.

wes33 writes "An amazing technological achievement deploying high-temperature superconductors is reported in Space Daily. American Superconductor Corporation (nice scifi-ish name) has built a 5MW electric ship motor using high-temp. superconductor technology. The Queen Elizabeth's 44 MW engines weigh 400 tons each (and she has two); a single comparable HST motor (36.5 MW) will weigh 75 tons!"

2 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Re:More Power? by Timber_Z · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats note the point. The point is that is FAR more effient then current technologies. The exact implemention is trival. Every so often technology makes a huge jump in performance that has a major impact on an industray. (Like moving from Hand Saws to Chain Saws for lumber: for example) This looks like it might be one of those times.

  2. what temp? by klossner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article is silent on exactly which temperature this high-temperature superconductor requires. Are we still at liquid-nitrogen temperatures or have we gone higher?