[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with tomakemerchant shipping more interesing

[Joseph Paul]

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 >shadow at shadowgard.com
 >Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:13 PM
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 >Subject: Re: [TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with
 >tomakemerchant shipping more interesing
 >
 >
 >On 14 Apr 2008 at 17:50, Michael Jenkins wrote:
 >
 >> On 14/04/2008, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
 >> > On 13 Apr 2008 at 9:22, Joseph Paul wrote:
 >> >
 >> >  >  >Not to mention a global power grid.  Averaging usage
 >across all time zones
 >> >  >  >would level demand too.  Of course, you need damn *big*
 >cables between
 >> >  >  >continents.  :)
 >> >  >
 >> >  > Nah-just high temp superconducters!
 >> >
 >> > Failure modes for superconducting cables are rather nasty. For ones
 >> >  carrying that kind of load it'd be rather like a large bomb.
 >>
 >> Interesting, you could get an explosion just by rapidly applying heat
 >> in the right (or is that the *wrong*) place.
 >
 >Or hitting it with a pulse of sufficiently high magnetic field.
 >
 >
 >--
 >Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
 >shadow at shadowgard dot com


Hmmm. How does that work? How strong a field is needed and does that vary by
the current carried in the wire?

Joseph Paul