Ocean Energy can be advanced by superconductors
Superconductivity is characterized by zero electrical resistance in a certain materials at very low temperatures. Even copper shows a resistance as its temperature is dropped to absolute zero. A superconductor’s resistance drops to zero when the material is cooled below its "critical temperature". This phenomenon does not occur in gold and silver or in most ferromagnetic metals.
A new family of cuprate-perovskite ceramic materials (aka high-temperature superconductors) has inspired new research, especially if materials with even higher critical temperatures could be discovered. But commercial applications are feasible right now. A very important boiling point, this ceramic becomes superconductive at a critical temperature of above 77 Kelvin, making liquid nitrogen economical.
The USA produces about 4,000 terawatts hours (TWH) per year and the world uses about 12,000 TWH annually. About half of the US supply is made from coal. When we were importing much less Natural Gas, we were building combined power plants that used NG in a jet to make electricity and then the left over heat to boil water to turn a turbine. (I work on build 2 of them as an electrician.) Recently the California Air Resources Board has turned down all applications for these power plants. If it was not for some breakthrough technologies in wind turbines, concentrating solar power plants, hydro-electric power plants, cow methane digesters and wave power plants generators that dramatically increase supply efficiencies, California would be back to blackouts next year. But these carbon neutral technologies are being advanced and will continue to be a big part of this century’s greatest technological advancements.
Superconductors will give us a new generation of electric cars, electric trains, electric airplanes, improved home electronics and refrigeration. Businesses will be more productive and use less energy. The USA will build a cross country superconductor electric high speed train capable of 200 MPH. The US has to double output of existing hydro electric power plants by adding many small ones all over that use superconductors. We have a water problem; it starts with pharmaceuticals in our water supply by people taking medications or dumping them in the toilet. In Sacramento, we add almost 100 million tons of Ammonia to the water supply killing fish. These chemicals can not be easily removed. What we need is for California to upgrade the pumping stations to superconductor electric motors and double the pumping capacity of state water works, the states largest electric consumer.
We all want to invest in these new technologies but more importantly unions, utilities, Social Security and local governments have to invest and some of that will take changing the laws. The US Postal Service, one of the world’s biggest users of oil, has no plan to change. The problem is over the next 10 years we give away another 10 trillion dollars of our wealth. We have to do better.
A new family of cuprate-perovskite ceramic materials (aka high-temperature superconductors) has inspired new research, especially if materials with even higher critical temperatures could be discovered. But commercial applications are feasible right now. A very important boiling point, this ceramic becomes superconductive at a critical temperature of above 77 Kelvin, making liquid nitrogen economical.
The USA produces about 4,000 terawatts hours (TWH) per year and the world uses about 12,000 TWH annually. About half of the US supply is made from coal. When we were importing much less Natural Gas, we were building combined power plants that used NG in a jet to make electricity and then the left over heat to boil water to turn a turbine. (I work on build 2 of them as an electrician.) Recently the California Air Resources Board has turned down all applications for these power plants. If it was not for some breakthrough technologies in wind turbines, concentrating solar power plants, hydro-electric power plants, cow methane digesters and wave power plants generators that dramatically increase supply efficiencies, California would be back to blackouts next year. But these carbon neutral technologies are being advanced and will continue to be a big part of this century’s greatest technological advancements.
Superconductors will give us a new generation of electric cars, electric trains, electric airplanes, improved home electronics and refrigeration. Businesses will be more productive and use less energy. The USA will build a cross country superconductor electric high speed train capable of 200 MPH. The US has to double output of existing hydro electric power plants by adding many small ones all over that use superconductors. We have a water problem; it starts with pharmaceuticals in our water supply by people taking medications or dumping them in the toilet. In Sacramento, we add almost 100 million tons of Ammonia to the water supply killing fish. These chemicals can not be easily removed. What we need is for California to upgrade the pumping stations to superconductor electric motors and double the pumping capacity of state water works, the states largest electric consumer.
We all want to invest in these new technologies but more importantly unions, utilities, Social Security and local governments have to invest and some of that will take changing the laws. The US Postal Service, one of the world’s biggest users of oil, has no plan to change. The problem is over the next 10 years we give away another 10 trillion dollars of our wealth. We have to do better.
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