Much as I'd like to have some ultraconductor wire to play with, I'm not
convinced that Ultrqaconducting Magnetic Energy Storage will replace
batteries. Magnetic fields create a pressure equal to the energy
density- and therefore require a strong (read "heavy" and "expensive")
mechanical container.
Mark Goldes wrote:
Harry,
They can be made, but not yet in wire form.
Thin films containing Ultraconductors 1 or 2 microns in diameter
(1/50th the diameter of a human hair) can always carry 50 Amperes.
The Ultraconductors run through the film in the thin direction, (i.e.
normal to the film).
Wire is 3 years and $18 million in front of us.
Once available as wire, electron flywheels can begin to replace
batteries. Ultraconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems are
expected to prove practical.
Electric motors made with Ultraconducting wire can be much smaller and
lighter, and may require no iron. Alll plastic motors may therefore
prove practical. Superconducting motors require no iron. We suspect
the same will be true of Ultraconductors.
Mark
From: Harry Veeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Who Killed the EV?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:29:14 -0500
If room temperature superconductors can be made they would also
boost the performance of electric vehicles.
If I remember correctly, a Time magazine cover from around '86 or '87
showed an artist's rendering of a futuristic electric vehicle as one
of the
promises of high temperature superconductors.
Harry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Veeder
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> Do they mean the braking system did not use friction?
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> It used both: disc in front, electric in rear. Here are the EV-1
specs:
>
>
http://www.evchargernews.com/CD-A/gm_ev1_web_site/specs/specs_specs_top.h
> tm
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ckaju
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