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Retired physician and air taxi operator, science writer and part time assistant professor, these editorials cover a wide range of topics. Mostly non political, mostly true, I write more from a lifetime of experience and from research, more science than convention. Subjects cover medicine, Alaska aviation, economics, technology and an occasional book review. Globalization or Democracy documents the historical roots of Oligarchy, the road to colonialism and tyranny

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Super Conductor Electric Motors


"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, motors account for 70% of all energy consumed by the domestic manufacturing sector and use over 55% of the total electric energy generated in this country."

http://www.atspeedimages.com/ Michael Plitkins' photograph of the Tesla Electric with a Lotus sports car chase.

The so called HTS, high temperature superconducting, AC, synchronous, electric motor achieves much greater efficiency, lower cost, smaller size, lighter weight, less heat loss, greater reliability and lower maintenance than conventional electric motors. (or, for that matter, any internal combustion engine.) The motor in my Honda Civic is of the heavy conventional, unchanged for fifty years, variety.

The government will never promote it, and the established auto manufacturers and the oil cartel will fight it, so it is up to the small business tech entrepreneur to realize the benefits and the rewards of an all electric paradigm.
If the electric engine is more powerful and lighter, how long before GE builds one for Boeing? Model airplanes run on electric motors now! The Formula I people are introducing the hybrid electric to reduce heat loss and capture braking energy.
And HTS likes the cold.

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