Rapidcreek comments on Superconductor breakthrough replicated twice on preliminary testing

Superconductor breakthrough replicated twice on preliminary testing (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 21 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Even if it's useless it's a massive step forwards in superconductor development

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[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 13 points 3 years ago

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.

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[–] unomar@midwest.social 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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