US Navy Shifting to Electric Ships and Superconducting Engines If Costs Were Lowered
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6DXKV)
The US Navy has built and tested 5 Megawatt and 36.5 megawatt superconducting engines over ten years ago. All of the tests were good and the specifications were met. They need to lower the cost and increase reliability. Test superconducting motors have been built for large wind power systems. If the LK99 superconductors were real ...