Superconductors

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Comment by Lawrence Murray on May 13, 2010 at 6:57pm

Any one near Sacramento on May 28 at 1 PM might want to take the Fuel Cell Tour in West Sacramento. Contact coolingearth@yahoo.com

Comment by Lawrence Murray on May 9, 2010 at 8:32pm

http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/
This web sight does a great job getting the message out about: How bad is cap and trade. I support a national sales tax, pollution surcharge and recently added a FAT tax. People get to make choices; government must help fund fuel cells and superconductors and clean water. It is not like they can keep this game up as gas is going to sell for $7.50 / gal in 10 years. But with cars that run on hydrogen (fuel cell) and liquid nitrogen (Superconductor Motor) and plug in the batteries, we cut pollution by transportation 40%. Our solar collectors and plugged in car make us money and top $ on peak. Wind is used to make hydrogen along with concentrating solar.

Comment by Lawrence Murray on December 13, 2009 at 9:52pm

Here is where we need research money!
While the world talks at the largest and most important UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement by the world on how to reduce carbon and avoid calamitous global warming as the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end. However, nations continue development, funding and startups of new coal-powered electric generator stations; continue burning of the worlds rain forests, draining of the world’s wetland: it is business as usual. Scientists grow more concerned about melting the permafrost that would release methane that could accelerate global warming. The U.S. and China exchanged barbs at the climate talks, underscoring the suspicion between the world's two largest carbon polluters about the sincerity of their pledges to control emissions. Both nations are playing with new coal power plants while China is forced to import coal from the U.S. This has led to mainstream scientists, which just a few years ago dismissed science like fertilizing the seas with iron or scattering particles in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight or recapturing carbon as ridiculous, now looking at them closely hoping some will ease the Earth's climate crisis. The conference targets a treaty like the Montreal Protocol from 1987, which has drastically reduced chlorofluorocarbons causing Ozone depletion. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect February 2005. Its 1997 goal was to get industrialized nations to return to 1990 greenhouse levels and then to reduce them by 5.2%. 187 nations have ratified the treaty, but not the Unites States which has doomed the outcome. On Thursday a partial solution was proposed: shifting some of the International Monetary Fund's mission from providing liquidity to stressed financial markets to financing clean-energy projects in developing countries. Richer nations have pushed forward an offer to jumpstart the fund with $10-billion-a-year, three-year proposal, but it is not much as the current price tags for eliminating climate change at 1 Trillion dollars per year for 10 years. Developing countries, seeing an opportunity, are demanding much more; it's not sufficient. These wide disagreements over climate-change responsibility, financing and cleanup could actually wreck the Copenhagen climate conference. The outcome may be linked to what the U.S. Congress is willing to give poor countries to reduce greenhouse gasses, new offer to scientists who have projects involving intervention and drastic domestic greenhouse gas reductions. Congress could go a long way toward saving life on earth while creating new jobs and reducing healthcare cost. I have seen that we can reduce our carbon footprint, grow the economy and have a better standard of living. One of the many keys is research, another replacing our aging nuclear power plants. But what we will not allow of our Congress to keep business as usual.

Comment by Robert Wisner on August 2, 2008 at 10:18pm

My company is investigating use of Titanium Diboride as a high temperature superconductor. In one repeatable experiment, TiB2 has been found to be superconductive at 22C.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=AQE5AAAAEBAJ