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Article: Electric breakthrough goes commercial; Utilities and even the Navy are snapping up new and highly efficient superconductors.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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Byline: Mark Clayton Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. -- Twenty years after their much ballyhooed discovery, high-tech materials capable of delivering 150 times the electricity of conventional wire are starting to push into the commercial market.
They promise to make generators, industrial motors, and even power lines far more efficient as the technology becomes more affordable. At least eight new cable projects already are under way in the United States, Europe, China, South Korea, Japan, and Mexico. This month, a leading US innovator in the field will shove out the factory door its first commercial product using the ...