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anyone else super hyped about superconductors?
gdi i gotta focus on real work. in the morning

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you and i have very different conceptions of low

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Update: I'm not excited because deploying this thing in most applications seems difficult: * it's a ceramic, not malleable, so it's not going in powerlines apparently this was surmounted before, though those cables ended up being difficult and more expensive than the fucken titanium-niobium alternatives. * because printing it onto a die sounds implausible and because it wouldn't improve heat efficiency as much as people would expect (because most heat comes from state changes afaik? Regardless, this). * because 1D * because I'm not even sure about energy storage applications, how much energy can you contain before the magnetic field is strong enough to break the coil or just become very inconvenient to shield from neighboring cars? Is it really a lot?

if it is superconducting, I'm excited not just for this material but of the (lost soviet?) theories outlined in the original paper - in general new physics leads to new technology and in particular it would imply other room-temp standard pressure superconductors are possible.

idk it could be the next carbon nanotubes (as in not actually useful for much at our current tech level) or it could be the next steel / (not literally, I mean in terms of increasing rate of gdp growth). like if it allows for more precise magnetic sensors that leads to further material... (read more)