We, the skilled students at the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Enid Regional Center based out of Enid, Oklahoma, masterfully designed our homepage #03-768. Our technical advisor was Dr. Dean Peterson, director of the Superconductivity Technology Center at the Los Alamos National Laboratories based out of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

http://www.phys.pe.kr/image/superconductor.jpg            "Magnetic fields are actively excluded from superconductors (Meissner effect). If a small magnet is brought near a superconductor, it will be repelled becaused induced supercurrents will produce mirror images of each pole. If a small permanent magnet is placed above a superconductor, it can be levitated by this repulsive force."

           We chose the national critical technology of materials and the technical application of superconductors: high temperature superconductors. The product we have theorized is an electrical power grid with the use of superconductors in the generators, cables, fault current limiters, and transformers.

Image courtesy of WonderMagnet.com.           "The levitation process is quite remarkable. Since the levitating currents in the superconductor meet no resistance, they can adjust almost instantly to maintain the levitation. The suspended magnet can be moved, put into oscillation, or even spun rapidly and the levitation currents will adjust to keep it in suspension."

           Recently, our nation has been hit with the biggest blackout in US history due to the inefficient standards of our power grid. This failure to modernize our infrastructure has cost our homeland with millions of taxpayers dollars for the maintenance of the antiquated system. To this problem we present a more futuristic, yet feasible, solution through the use of high-temperature superconductors. We envision an economical system into the next generation of power supply while saving its taxpayers money. A system founded upon elegant use of superconducting lines and hardware.

CNN.com - Major power outage hits New York, other large cities - Aug. 14, 2003:
          http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/
Magnetic levitation:
          http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solids/maglev.html
Superconductor Terms:
          http://superconductors.org/terms.htm
http://www.Phys.Pe.Kr
           http://www.phys.pe.kr/image/superconductor.jpg
WonderMagnet.com
           http://www.wondermagnet.com/

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