What Can You Do with a Superconductor? A Lot! [PODCAST]
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What is a superconductor? One definition says, “a material that can conduct electricity or transport electrons from one atom to another with no resistance.”
“At the base physics level, what a superconductor does is it moves a lot more power per unit volume or per unit weight, so you have a very high energy-dense material that can move lots of power,” Daniel McGahn, CEO of American Superconductor (AMSC), explained as a guest on The POWER Podcast. “So, from a very simple standpoint, we can move transmission-level power at distribution voltage simply with the energy density.”
AMSC is a global energy solutions provider serving both the power grid and wind industries. “Everything we do revolves around resiliency—either of the grid, infrastructure, or of Navy ships,” McGahn said.
“We do a lot of grid interconnection of wind to the grid. We do voltage support within the grid.…