Technological Evolution of High Temperature Superconductors
Masters thesis — Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. Full text: https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD1009326
Arguments
Technological Evolution of High Temperature Superconductors
Superconductors sit at the junction of the energy and naval lanes — a cable that moves power with near-zero loss rewrites both grid economics and warship design.
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable is nearing full-scale integration — already demonstrated in the commercial electric grid and successfully tested by the Navy (a working HTS degaussing system on a modern U.S. destroyer in 2008), with electric-ship propulsion and high-energy weapons like rail guns and lasers as the next targets; patent-trend analysis projects continued innovation.
Why it matters
Superconductors sit at the junction of the energy and naval lanes — a cable that moves power with near-zero loss rewrites both grid economics and warship design.
Use when: Patent filings are a leading indicator — when you want to know where a technology is going, count what's being claimed, not what's being announced.