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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
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A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Superconductors basically means you can run your PC's processor at 1% of its current energy draw. So now take a mobile phone processor, recreate it with superconductors, and you suddenly have a device that can do a massive amount of computations for years on a single AA battery

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not just that, but you also have things like MRI, CT, and PET imaging in the medical world that would suddenly not need liquid helium and nitrogen for operation. Scientific instruments like NMR and high resolution FT-MS machines will stop using all the liquid helium and nitrogen. It will save are rapidly disappearing helium resources and allow for that to be used for other things.

    Then there is mass transit that can be developed. The list goes on.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Simple energy transmission. A room-temp superconductor has the potential to fundamentally change the entire electrical grid if it were even remotely scalable.

    It's hard to overstate how immensely expensive and complex energy transmission currently is.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    You aren't going to heat something to 127 °C with an AA battery.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    The 127C is the critical temperature. With other superconductors, if you get the material below the critical temperature, its starts superconducting. From the descriptions I've seen, the meaning of critical temperature is the same with this material, so it should superconduct at 23C just fine, presuming it is a superconductor.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Most people don't consider 127 °C to be room temperature.

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