Ionized Gas Cables: Can You Buy Them?

[FilipLand]

Hi!

Does it exist cables using ionized gas / plasma as the conductor available to buy?

Thanks in advance!

 

[anorlunda]

What do you find by Internet searches?

 

[FilipLand]

Well I have found many plasma torch cutting cables, and a bunch of plasma technology companies such as tekna.som.

I have read on http://www.efd-induction.com/en/Applications/Plasma.aspx that plasma are used in fibre-cables to make to promote the light-traveling in some way. Is it even possible to have cables using ionized gas as conductor? I have spent many hours looking for it on the internet without much success.

 

[berkeman]

Well I have found many plasma torch cutting cables, and a bunch of plasma technology companies such as tekna.som.

I have read on http://www.efd-induction.com/en/Applications/Plasma.aspx that plasma are used in fibre-cables to make to promote the light-traveling in some way. Is it even possible to have cables using ionized gas as conductor? I have spent many hours looking for it on the internet without much success.

What would be a reason you would use such a cable? Do you have some application in mind? Can you think of some disadvantages of conducting electricity with such a cable?

 

[Averagesupernova]

Sounds like star trek stuff to me.

 

[rbelli1]

I have read on http://www.efd-induction.com/en/Applications/Plasma.aspx that plasma are used in fibre-cables to make to promote the light-traveling in some way.

If you read the information in the link you provided you will find that plasma is used for the manufacture of optical fibers. No plasma is present during operation.

This is similar (as in a manufacturing step not necessarily as for what purpose) to what Tekna is doing. Their website is a bit hyperbolic.

Is it even possible to have cables using ionized gas as conductor?

Possibly? Practically, not likely unless some other property of that kind of system is really compelling. Consider the questions @berkeman asked.

Well I have found many plasma torch cutting cables

These use no plasma. They are just specially designed copper welding cables that have high flexibility and a bundle of different conductors and gas tubing integrated into one cable.

Sounds like star trek stuff to me.

Most of what you see on Star Trek about plasma is total technobabble and not relevant to reality.

BoB

 

[Averagesupernova]

Most of what you see on Star Trek about plasma is total technobabble and not relevant to reality.

BoB

I rest my case.

 

[jim mcnamara]

This deserves no further attention. Closed.