Superconductors that operate at room temperature and no electricity loss? Harvard team of physicists map samples at millionths of a meter to correlate behavior with temp, pressure, stoichiometry, etc.

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• DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My favorite application for room-temp superconductors is low-speed generators. They have exactly one application, but it’s big: Wind towers without a giant gearbox. Wind power is cheap, but without the truck-sized gearbox with a bazillion moving parts that you can’t lift without the biggest cranes known to man, it’s even cheaper.

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I like that you can build a global energy grid with superconductor. Power Europe at night with the solar panels in Australia, that kind of thing.

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I look forward to the next LK-99

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