High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids 332
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from the what've-y'-got-t'-swop? dept.
physburn writes "Somewhere in a triangle between Roswell (UFO) NM, Albuquerque (Left Turn) NM, and Amarillo (Do you know the way?) TX, a 22.5 square mile triangle of High Temperature Superconductor pipeline is to be built. Each leg of the triangle can carry 5GW of electricity. The purpose to load-balance and sell electricity between America's three power grids. Previously the Eastern Grid, Western Grid and Texan Grid have been separate, preventing cheap electricity being sold from one end of America to the other. The Tres Amiga Superstation, as it is to be called, will finally connect the three grids. The superstation is also designed to link renewable solar and wind power in the grids, and is to use HTS wire from American Superconductor. Some 23 years after its invention, today HTS comes of age. "
Five jiggawatts?! (Score:4, Funny)
That's enough to power slightly more than four time machines.
I love slashdot. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Four words: (Score:1, Funny)
That's why the OP just said it was to be built "somewhere" and didn't mention Clovis.
Oops.
Tres Amiga (Score:4, Funny)
Lucky Day: Wherever there is injustice, you will find us.
Ned Nederlander: Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there.
Dusty Bottoms: Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find...
Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms: The Three Amigos!
I know amiga ! (Score:3, Funny)
Sure Amiga still rocks !
Who will build an Atari ST grid ?
Uh.. Roswell? (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, Roswell?
More likely this is going to be the supragrid where the huge alien craft will come to suck our energy away. (Think "V" The mini-series)
shapes (Score:3, Funny)
Shocking times we live in (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if there is a difference in the potential of this technology and other high throughput power transferring systems. I think being able to distribute power has the capacity to put us on the road to using more electricity as opposed to oil based fuel. That's all we've needed: a kick in the joules to get us on a better path.
Shocking times indeed. I just need to remember to stay grounded; You can never know exactly when and where technological progress will come from.
I'm a... (Score:1, Funny)
I can conduct 3 symphony orchestras at once.
I'm a super conductor.
Re:Four words: (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, they've disabled our ability to sell electricity from one grid to another!
Re:Where? (Score:3, Funny)
The submitter obviously didn't know the way to San Jose and instead of admitting he was wrong changed the song.
Re:I love slashdot. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Very nice, but... (Score:4, Funny)
I doubt it. In fact, the people working on it probably submitted this story and are reading all the comments right now, taking notes as they go.
Re:Five jiggawatts?! (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent. Now we can go into the future and kick Higgs Boson's ass for going back in time and sabotaging the LHC.
Re:Five jiggawatts?! (Score:1, Funny)
This, however, is clearly flamebait.
Re:Very nice, but... (Score:3, Funny)