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posted by mrpg on Friday March 17 2017, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the superconductor-in-Spanish-is-superconductor dept.

European researchers said Tuesday they had developed a cheaper and more efficient superconducting tape which could one day be used to double the potency of wind turbines.

Eurotapes, a European research project on superconductivity—the ability of certain materials to channel electricity with zero resistance and very little power loss—has produced 600 metres (1,968 feet) of the tape, said the coordinator of the project, Xavier Obradors, of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona.

"This material, a copper oxide, is like a thread that conducts 100 times more electricity than copper. With this thread you can for example make cables to transport much more electricity or generate much more intense magnetic fields than today," he told AFP.

"This new material could be used to make more potent and lighter wind turbines," he added, predicting it will make it possible to manufacture wind turbines one day with double the potency than existing ones.

No graphene was involved in this announcement.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 17 2017, @05:59PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 17 2017, @05:59PM (#480521) Journal
    They have three slides in that presentation that do the up to the right thing. I hope they'll be able to afford more arrows for their next presentation. That'll mean the funding is working!