Ship propulsion, superconductivity

Mike Superczynski, head of the Machinery Technology Branch of the Navy s David Taylor Research Center, is a big man with a booming laugh who knows all about Japanese EMT but is far more interested in what the navy calls S/C electric drive—superconducting electric drive—as it applies to ship propulsion, and specifically to a test craft called Jupiter II. He also knows a lot about superconductivity and likes to tell the story about the admiral who once introduced him to a scientific symposium with the words, Now the super is Mike s middle name, and the czynski is Polish for conductivity. ... 

The operating principle behind a superconducting generator is virtually identical to that of a conventional rotating generator, just as the superconducting ship-drive system we discussed is similar in concept to an ordinary shipboard propulsion system. Conductors in the spinning rotor... 

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