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American Superconductor (AMSC)
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Emcee:  Ron Sovak Type:  Unmoderated
American Superconductor (AMSC) is the maker of high temperature superconducting material. By high temperature they mean slightly higher than liquid nitrogen (<-411 deg f). The product that they are making can be formed into wire and virtually no loss due to resistance in trasmitting electricity. Due to the temperature and brittleness of the material I'm not sure if it will ever replace transmission lines. They are working with Relience Electric (division of Rockwell, Inc) on a superconducting electric motor that uses superconducting coils wound from AMSC's product.

This motor has huge potential. As far as motors go, this tecnology is only practical for large motors used in industrial applications. The motor is in a research mode and continuing efforts are scaling up to bigger and bigger applications.

The target is 1000 horsepower for a comercial motor. Currently a 200 hp motor has been demonstrated. A four year estimate is the horizon for a comercial product. A 10,000 hp motor built with this technology would save $100k per year in electrical use! AMSC has recived R&D magazine's 100 best project project awards.

The company is operating on research grants and has other applications. Anyone else following this story?
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973AMSC Out LCTX In After 17 years, I sold all of my shares. Thanks for the ride. tktrimbath18/8/2020
972My mid year review of AMSC INTRO Here's my semi-annual exercise to see if Itktrimbath-6/30/2020
971My end of year review of AMSC INTRO Here's my semi-annual exercise to see itktrimbath112/31/2019
970Good Profit moves stock more than Good News.Julius Wong-9/23/2019
969Anyone know why AMSC is down even as good news is announced? Is it really not gotktrimbath-9/23/2019
968interesting, I agree with you, there always is some kind of cyber espionage goinInternship-7/26/2019
967INTRO Here's my semi-annual exercise to see if I remember why I own the stoctktrimbath26/30/2019
966My end of year review of AMSC INTRO Here's my semi-annual exercise to see itktrimbath-12/31/2018
965I think the settlement with Sinovel precludes any additional compensation, and tArt Bechhoefer212/14/2018
964I didn't see anything, either. I suspected the rest of you did. One speculattktrimbath-12/14/2018
963Nothing substantial has been added to the bottom line except minimal payments frArt Bechhoefer-12/13/2018
962Dead money huh?Josephus-12/13/2018
961That certainly was big volume, accompanied by a momentary spike in the price as Art Bechhoefer29/21/2018
960Big volume spike at EOD trading. Still going on.Josephus-9/20/2018
959Issues and opportunities for superconductors An interesting study of why superctktrimbath-7/28/2018
958Lawrence -- Good research. It seems as though the shareholders' only recoursArt Bechhoefer-7/11/2018
957I spoke to the US Attorney's office in Madison. The sentencing cannot be aLawrence Burg17/11/2018
956AMSC now has a total market value of about $120 million, or roughly twice the $5Art Bechhoefer17/9/2018
955A collapse of INOX revenues in the future would suggest very strongly that AMSC Art Bechhoefer-7/9/2018
954just half joking. I'll definitely go if I can't get a sponsor for my appLawrence Burg-7/9/2018
953Also, an award of 4x TTM revenues is nothing to sneeze at. I suppose it will beMysterytome-7/9/2018
952Seems to me the company did everything it could to downplay the possibility of aMysterytome17/9/2018
951Even if you try to get an appointment and don't succeed, you would have a reArt Bechhoefer-7/8/2018
950Hawk, here's a possible scenario about what might be going on: The sentenceArt Bechhoefer17/8/2018
949art, please contact me if youre willing, at crabhunter@comcast.net. I am lookinLawrence Burg-7/7/2018
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