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Superconductivity Provides Advanced Electricity Distribution Technology, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

Superconductivity is based on the use of super-cooled cable to distribute electricity over distance, with little of the significant loss of electric power incurred during traditional transmission over copper wires.  It is one of the most promising technologies for upgrading the ailing electricity grid.
Superconductivity dates back to 1911, when a Dutch physicist determined that the element mercury, when cooled to minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit, has virtually no electrical resistance.  That is, it lost zero electric power when used as a means to distribute electricity from one spot to another.  Two decades later, in 1933, a German physicist named Walther Meissner discovered that superconductors have no interior magnetic field.  This property enabled superconductivity to be put to commercial use by 1984, when magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) were commercialized for medical imaging.


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