Talk:Superconducting magnetic energy storage
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What if the SMES were in the form of a toroidal solenoid? It may require more flixibility of the superconducting material, but all of the magnetic fields are containd, avoiding any health issues.
This sort of SMES design is refered to in "Engineering Electromagnetics" by Ida, but he doesn't go into any depth as it's an introductory text. --ASL 22:10, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
I think it is appropriate to mention how SMES is currently used in industry as a power conditioner, allowing for smoothing out current. I wrote a school paper on this several years back and remember that this is one spot where SMES is actually already being used. I think this may be a better way to focus this article. Maybe after talking about how we currently use this technology we can then talk about far off scheemes. If I can find my old summary of the technology I may put excerts into the talk pages so someone can put parts in the article later if they want. If nothing else, it should provide some scholarly sources. Lcolson
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- Lost my paper, but found my presentation. Excerts below. Lcolson
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- Alright, I've started working on a new article, but am going to keep it on the talk pages till its ready for prime time. Feel free to help edit.Lcolson
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- Completed integration and moved.Lcolson
[edit] Unexplained vocabulary.
The phrase "the outer hoops and two disks" is baffling. What hoops? Was there supposed to be a diagram accompanying this?
Later on in the article, "bucking cylinder" appears without explanation.
Otherwise very cool, answered a lot of questions!
[edit] Picture...
Here is a drawing of an SMES:
http://www.wtec.org/loyola/scpa/f02_05.gif
I have seen this drawing in several places on the web, so perhaps it will be able to be used in this article. 137.241.252.24 19:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
