Low temperatures and electric power

✍ Scribed by B.J. Maddock; W.T. Norris; D.A. Swift; M.T. Taylor

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 918 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-2275
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(69)90242-2

✦ Synopsis

London on 24-26 March. The skeleton of the meeting was provided by seven invited survey lectures covering the broad field under discussion. They were planned to facilitate the marriage between the power industry, for which simplicity, ruggedness, reliability, and cheapness are prime requirements, and the sophisticated, delicate but incisive contributions offered by low temperature technology. As in all marriages, the relationship is full of intricacies and crucial interactions between factors which might have been supposed independent of one another, and also instances where one seeks to reconcile almost incompatible factors in order to bring together the eminently well matched. These cross correlations were well brought out in trying to group the papers for the sessions: they simply would not fit into watertight compartments and the conference had by and large to be taken as a whole or not at all. This report is written in sections, but the connexion between the different aspects stands out.