Contentful ID
COSMOSIZwJe9OsJL3HnKaojFoh
Market
Utility
Wattershed
Contentful ID
d06d1891-09b7-0775-aff7-08409835874e-draft
Company Values
Entity Description
High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) wire transmits electricity with zero losses to resistance. HTS transmission cables can move huge amounts of power in small cables over very long distances — even across oceans — with no losses.
Entity Name
Wattershed
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Technology Areas
Technology Description
To maintain its superconductivity, HTS cable must remain at or below the temperature of liquid nitrogen (77 Kelvin). So HTS cables are kept under a constant flow of liquid nitrogen, inside a vacuum-insulated pipe (or “cryostat”). Keeping that liquid nitrogen pumping and cooling requires 1% of the electricity transmitted in an HTS cable on the 10,000 kilometer stretch crossing an ocean and connecting continents.