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All at once a dazzling array of superconductor uses seemed tantalizingly possible. Researchers now estimate that high-speed computers using superconductors may be three to five years away. Farther off are 300-m.p.h. trains that float on magnetic cushions, which now exist as prototypes but may take at least a...
In the radiance of the setting sun or the swirling fog around San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge takes on an unearthly quality belying its 389,000 cu. yds. of concrete, 83,000 tons of structural steel and 80,000 miles of wire, much of it suspension cables a...
Take the transmission of electricity, for example. As much as 20% of the energy sent through high-tension lines is now lost in the form of heat generated as the current encounters resistance in the copper wire. If the electricity could be sent through superconducting cable, however, not a kilowatt...
When Secretary of State George Shultz phoned President Reagan from Moscow last week, he was forced to make his call from a special communications van flown over from the U.S. In the wake of the charges that Marine guards had allowed KGB agents into the embassy, his cables to Washington...
Reassuring? No, chilling. American experts are virtually certain that the bugs are there, all right, but are so tiny and cleverly hidden that they are next to impossible to uncover. Sources familiar with the situation say technicians have detected audio-frequency emissions that they think originate in the electronic-coding...