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Mix-Ansicht- Supraleiter werden 50 Mio Unzen Silber jährlich verbrauchen - Rumpelstilzchen, 19.03.2002, 10:18
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Supraleiter werden 50 Mio Unzen Silber jährlich verbrauchen
Dieses Jahr beginnt die American Superconductor Corp mit der Produktion und
wird allein 4-5 Mio Unzen Silber verbrauchen. Innerhalb der nächsten 10 Jahre soll sich der Verbrauch verzehnfachen.
GE Awards Contract for High Temperature
Superconductor Wire for World’s First 100
Megawatt High Temp Superconductor Generator
The General Electric Company has awarded American
Superconductor Corp., Westborough, Massachusetts, a
contract as the primary supplier of high temperature
superconductor wire (HTS) for the world’s first 100 megawatt
HTS generator. The entire HTSD project, valued at $26 million,
is one of seven recently-announced projects that are part of the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Superconductivity Initiative
program.
The generator will use 40 kilometers of HTS wire,
consuming more than 1,000 ounces of silver. AmSuper’s wire
plant is the first such commercial facility in the world and is
expected to use 4 to 5 million ounces annually of silver to
produce 20,000 km of HTS wire, or about 250 ounces per
kilometer of wire, according to Vice President Jeff Nestel-Patt.
The wire facility will be in full operation by early 2002.
The superconducting wire market may consume 50 million
ounces of silver or more every year, within the next decade.
General Electric officials believe that the proposed HTS
generator will provide a breakthrough in high efficiency
generators creating the potential to save billions of kilowatt
hours annually and millions of dollars in energy savings,
reduced emissions and increased competitiveness of U.S.
utilities in global markets. Superconducting power
equipment typically will be half the size and have half the
energy losses compared to conventional equipment.
“Utility generators, industrial ship propulsion motors, and
power cables represent a huge market opportunity for our
HTS wires,” says Greg Yurek, President and Chief Executive
Officer of American Superconductor. “The demand for HTS
wires for utility generators alone could exceed the annual
capacity of our new HTS wire manufacturing plant, the first
commercial HTS wire manufacturing plant in the world.”
Superconductivity allows certain materials, such as
ceramics, to carry large electrical current without the losses
of conventional materials such as copper. Silver sheathing
provides a protective and inert barrier for the ceramic and
represents about the half of an average electrical cable’s
weight. Superconducting power equipment typically will be
half the size and have half the energy losses compared to
conventional equipment.
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