trent@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Ray Trent) (11/28/86)
In article <1755@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: >Show me a wire cloth as flexible as cotton (as the superconducting cloth was >implied to be) and yet able to conduct well, and I'll show you something that >makes perpetual motion machines look plausible by comparison... The two don't >mix. > >++bRando(m)n Obviously, you've never seen solder wick. If you take some nice thick solder wick and spread it out to a width of about 1/4" and a thickness of about 1 strand, it approaches (if not equals) the flexability of a tough demin or muslin cloth. Since it is made of copper, it conducts fairly well. Also, are you forgetting conductive foams, graphite fiber weaves, aluminum foil, (or for that matter, gold leaf?), etc. You may not like these as examples (they're not all *wire* cloth, and you may define "conduct well" differently) but even so, one could make something like solder wick with much smaller strands of 24K gold wire, and I bet it would be *very* flexible. (it conducts ok, too :-) I won't even talk about chain mail and similar cloths; they are *very* supple. -- "A journey of a thousand miles..." ../ray\.. (trent@csvax.caltech.edu, rat@caltech.bitnet, ...seismo!cit-vax!trent)