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MIT's new power grid cables promise 10x power over long distances
MIT spinoff's new technology promises to boost power transmission capacity by 10x using superconducting cables and advanced cooling systems.
“Building high-power transmission infrastructure can take a decade or more, and there’s been quite a few examples of projects that folks have had to abandon because they realize that there’s just so much opposition, or there’s too much complexity to pull it off cost effectively,” he added in the press release. By using advancements in superconducting cables and innovative cooling systems, originally developed in part by Steve Ashworth at Los Alamos National Laboratory, VEIR’s technology promises to deliver higher efficiency and reliability in transmitting electricity over long distances. Heidel remains optimistic about the broader implications of VEIR’s technology, asserting, “Just about every single decarbonization scenario… concludes that to achieve aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reductions, we’re going to have to double or triple the scale of power grids around the world.”
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