EECCIS 2014

My alma mater (Electrical Eng., Brawijaya University) holds an seminar bi-annually on various subjects on electrical engineering: electrical power, electronics, telecommunication, control system, computer engineering. This year's EECCIS 2014 is the 7th time, and the first time it's held joint committee with Universiti Tun Hussein Onn.



In the plenary session of the seminar, I had a chance to ask Prof. Dato' Mohd. Noh Dalimin after his lecture on superconductor applications for environmental sustainability. The presentation material wasn't that far from 1st year Electrochemisty on superconducting material (no 3rd order integral on temperature gradient and such; thx, God), still he gave us many enlightening insights.

I asked him about the feasibility of implementing superconductors as power line infrastructure considering that cryogenic cooling system is dire expensive; let alone that heat from the sunlight is enormous all year long in tropical countries. His answer was simple:
as the system deemed cost-ineffective at the moment, it means that there is a lot of room for improvement. And making those improvements that later yield tremendous benefit will surely cost huge amount of [sacrifices/]resources, too.

It gets me so damn hard.

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thank you so much for the pen case , it's made from recycled paper (the pen too); reminds us to be environmentally friendly.