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Lostgallifreyan · November 2nd 14, 09:19 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote in :

Here are a couple of things: electric motors and generators that would
be very close to 100% efficient, small, light, and lossless power
transmission lines, lossless transformers, big honking magnets.

Ok, point taken, but that may just mean stuff gets explored and diverse stuff
found to use them in here. After which they'll get sent out there. But given
the history of a lot of Earth's stuff beign based on stuff used in space, I
still think that much of the progress in superconductors will come to us via
uses in space. And once that happens, the distance between the inside and
outside of some space vehicle becomes the issue, not the original cost of
shipping it there.

Note that I'm not trying to compare the use of coolants and stuff to be
cooled, as used in the recent missions that ended for lack of coolant. Those
were conservatively based uses aimed at well-defined support of a mission.
I'm talking abotu them being used in small amounts as subject of direct
experiment and study, and I bet there will be plenty of that. Tha last thing
anyone should be doing is assuming that all that needs to be known about this
is known.