DC transmission line in Manhattan
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Brief mention as one of American Superconductor's deployments. Not developed.
Now, twenty-some years later, American Superconductor is kind of limping along, if you read about them in the paper. The Chinese have stolen their wind turbine technology software, and their stock's falling. They put in some transmission lines in New York City. But we're not riding on magnetically levitated trains, are we. That was my prediction of twenty-five years ago. Now it's not our grandchildren's lifetime, but my grandchildren have been born since then, and we'll see if sometime in the next fifty years we will be riding on superconducting magnetically levitated trains. I will bet we will not.