The world needs to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to limit the impact of global warming.
New Zealand has set itself a challenging target, to be net carbon-zero by 2050. Not counting agriculture, transportation is the largest source of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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The biggest technological challenge is to electrify aviation, followed by heavy transport: rail, shipping, and heavy trucks.
Superconducting machines offer two advantages : they are small and light, relative to their power output and well suited to electrify heavy transport.
Our research in this Strategic Science Platform, funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business and Innovation, looks at how to make superconducting machines including ancillary systems such as cryogenics and power electronics a reality for future large scale electric transport.
programme
In our programme we develop concepts for high temperature superconducting machines and the required ancillary subsystems.
Grant RTVU2004. Funded by New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Our programme is structured in 4 interconnected workstreams
Workstream 1
Superconducting Machines
Workstream 2
Cryogenic Systems
Workstream 3
Power Electronics
Workstream 4
Industry-Ready Capability
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