(to more precisely focus the topic, this thread has been changed from
'Re: interesting patent that might be useful..' to 'Room Temperature
Superconductivity')
This is really bizarre and synchronistic, just last night, I was reading
a paper by inventor Bourgoin that was presented at a 1980's conference
sponsored by Ken McNeal, thinking it would make a good file since it had
Bourgoins insights on how his discovery of the 'room temperature bismuth
filament superconductor' came about.
Patent Number 4325795
ABSTRACT: This invention is a process for forming electrical conductors
in the form of filaments which exhibit properties of electrical
superconductivity at ambient or normal room temperature. The process
includes the preparation of a molten mixture of conducting and insulator
materials, the introduction of the nearly homogeneous mixture between
electrodes across which a voltage is applied causing fine filaments to be
formed having a diameter within the range of 10 to 1,000 A. filaments
thus formed give almost no resistance to the passage of the electricity
therethrough at room temperature thus effectively forming an ambient
temperature superconductor.
There is a file called powering that was posted on the old BBS, I don't
yet have it on the website but you could do a search on powering.asc and
it should be on one of the three KeelyNet mirrors.
It speaks of using superconductors to store massive amounts of electrical
energy. Lightning strikes could be drawn from the sky using a French
donut shaped device that I sent to the ITS years ago (but they never
published it)....use the stored energy to run communities...
This ties in to a long past comment about 'liquid electricity' where
electricity stored as intense currents with no voltage (in a
superconductor deWar flask holding inert gas) will experience a phase
change from an energy to a viscuous liquid.
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