Potential of energy conservation by superconductive applications

The potential for energy conservation and CO2 reduction by the year 2010 in Japan based on the application of several superconductive applications app lied to power system, industrial, medical, information and communication te chnologies, is evaluated in this paper. Based on our analysis, the potentia l savings from energy conservation can be as great as 100 TWh. Also, potent ial CO2 reductions are expected to be 10 million carbon-tons. The most sign ificant result is that more than half of energy conservation is expected in information and communication technologies such as computers and switches. The underlying reason for this result is based on the survey's expectation that significant growth in energy consumption of these technologies will o ccur over the next decade. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserv ed.