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Dr. Wei-Kan Chu discusses flywheel energy storage on the moon.

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• University of Houston's Roy Weinstein, Lunar Space Applications Workshop 2011

• NASA's Kumar Krishen, Lunar Space Applications Workshop 2011

 

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In February 2011, the University of Houston’s (UH) Paul Chu discussed the search for new high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and a theory to explain the underlying mechanisms behind HTS. Chu is a professor at the University of Houston (UH) and was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. Chu is known in particular for his discovery of superconductivity in La2-xBaxCuO4 at 35 K in 1986 and Yba2Cu3O7 at 93 K in 1987.

 

Paul Chu Interview 1 (144 KB)  10-May-2011

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• New! Peter Chen, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

• Scott Livingston, Livingston Securities

• Valerii Vinokour, Argonne National Lab
• Venkat Selvamanickam, University of Houston/SuperPower
  

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Articles:

UBC Researchers Find Flaws in Current Theoretical HTS Models: Vol 23, No 19
"Researchers with the University of British Columbia (UBC) claim to have raised significant doubts concerning single-band Hubbard physics..."

DARPA Funds Low Power Micro Cryogenic Coolers Program: Vol 23, No 18
"The DoD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released that it will continue to fund its Low Power Micro Cryogenic Coolers (MCC) Program..."

MFC Expands MEG Holdings with Acquisition of 4-D Neuroimaging - Vol 23, No 15
"Mass Financial Corp. (MFC) has announced the purchase of MEG manufacturer 4-D Neuroimaging (4-D)..."

AMSC Announces First-Ever Quarterly Profits- Vol 23, No 9
"American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) has reported the first quarterly profits in company history for Q4 FY2008..."

D-Wave Systems Testing 128Qubit Quantum Computing Chip - Vol 23, No 5
"How much noise (and of what type) is acceptable varies depending on the computational model used..."

DOE awards nGimat $750,000 to Develop Insulation for Nb3Sn Wire - Vol 23, No 3
"The DOE has awarded nGimat Co. of Atlanta, GA a two-year, $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II to develop insulation for superconducting Nb3Sn wire..."

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