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Superconductor breakthrough replicated twice on preliminary testing

www.tomshardware.com Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing

A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing

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Big if true
- How big kinda depends...
  The two limits on superconductor performance are:
  How much current it can carry
  How much magnetic field it can withstand
  It will soon go to National Labs to establish those parameters
  
  Even if it's useless it's a massive step forwards in superconductor development
  
  I guess you could say that even if it has low electric and magnetic capacity it still will have a giant impact on industry. But not all industries.
  
  From what I understand, even if the current and magnetic field of this superconductor are low, it has:
  Identified a process for creating new superconductive materials
  Proven that ambient temperature and pressure superconductors are possible
  
  The original finding was written by experienced chemists, not physicists. There are some problems where solutions are searched for in the wrong directions.
  Our current generation of YCBO-based high-temperature superconductors started out as low-field, low-current, highly strain-sensitive, and over 30+ years of engineering development, these now carry >1000 amps/mm^2 in fields as high as 10T (although these numbers trade off against each other). It's a matter of time.
- How big kinda depends...
  The two limits on superconductor performance are:
  How much current it can carry
  How much magnetic field it can withstand
  It will soon go to National Labs to establish those parameters

39 comments