Schematic illustration of the superconducting highway for energy transportation and storage and superconductor levitation for the transportation of individuals and products. Credit: Vakaliuk et al.
New Concept Would Offer Economic, Environmental Benefits for Next-Generation Transit, Energy Transmission, and Storage
Researchers have actually proposed an affordable superconductor system that incorporates electrical power transmission and transport utilizing existing highway facilities. This principle might allow high-speed travel and offer a technique for keeping and transferring tidy energy, providing considerable long-lasting financial and ecological advantages.
For a very long time, the guarantee of superconductivity for electrical power transmission and transport has actually been kept back by high expenses. Now scientists from the University of Houston (UH) and Germany have actually shown a method to cut the expense and overthrow both the transit and energy transportation sectors by utilizing superconductors to move individuals, freight, and energy along existing highway facilities.
The combined system would not just lower the expense of running each system however would likewise offer a method to shop and transportation liquified hydrogen, an essential future source of tidy energy. The liquified hydrogen would be utilized to cool the superconductor guideway as it is saved and transferred, decreasing the requirement for a different specific pipeline system efficient in cooling the fuel to 20 degrees Kelvin, or minus 424
