{"id":109152,"date":"2020-06-26T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/electricity-transmission-reaches-even-higher-intensities"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:03:08","slug":"electricity-transmission-reaches-even-higher-intensities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/electricity-transmission-reaches-even-higher-intensities","title":{"rendered":"Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electricity-transmission-reaches-even-higher-intensities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intensity is rising at CERN. In the superconducting equipment testing hall, an innovative transmission line has set a new record for the transport of electricity. The link, which is 60 metres long, has transported a total of 54 000 amperes (54 kA, or 27 kA in either direction). \u201cIt is the most powerful electrical transmission line built and operated to date!\u201d says Amalia Ballarino, the designer and project leader.<\/p>\n<p>The line has been developed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/high-luminosity-lhc\">High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)<\/a>, the accelerator that will succeed the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/large-hadron-collider\">Large Hadron Collider (LHC)<\/a> and is scheduled to start up at the end of 2027. Links like this one will connect the HL-LHC\u2019s magnets to the power converters that supply them.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to the new line\u2019s power can be summarised in one word: <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/engineering\/superconductivity\">superconductivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intensity is rising at CERN. In the superconducting equipment testing hall, an innovative transmission line has set a new record for the transport of electricity. The link, which is 60 metres long, has transported a total of 54 000 amperes (54 kA, or 27 kA in either direction). \u201cIt is the most powerful electrical transmission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}