Superconducting Generators: A Fresh Breeze in Renewables

05.02.2020 | Osnabrück (renewablepress) - Around the globe, wind energy accounts for an increasingly large share of the electricity supply. Environmentally this is a very positive trend, but it also results in a steady push for lowering the cost. Of course, the high standards of grid supply are not to be sacrificed. Thus as industry and as a society we thus need to keep innovating. Superconductors could become a very useful innovation in wind turbine generators. From a fundamental point of view, they have almost no electric resistance, they can be cheaper than copper, and they can be efficiently cooled. They generate powerful magnetic fields wit... more...