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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:16PM (#3699635)
Wow, those are pretty cool. Hate to be around when they lost cooling (dropping out of superconductivity would be a pretty energetic event :-). But its good news on that front.

If you've ever seen the insulator jacket in an underground HVDC cable it is huge.

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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by onemoreact on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:23PM (#3699928)
Most of these systems both carry power and sit in a pool of coolant so they rarely experience such an 'energetic event'. AKA, if they lose power they don't need to keep things cool AND it usually takes a few hours for things to warm up anyway.
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by bigiain on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:50PM (#3700932)
Not a superconducting cable, but this is a great read:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by zig on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @08:34AM (#3702856)
Thank you for the link - this was a great read =)
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