Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor

Post by whatshisface » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 6:00 AM UTC

eganist wrote: post #4

Fascinating. I'd put a bit more faith in this one on the grounds that 1) the Navy probably wouldn't waste legal cycles on filling this one if it hadn't been reduced to practice, and 2) there looks like there's still energy lost to heat, if I'm reading correctly: > An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibrati…

Post by dang » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 6:35 AM UTC

diggan wrote: post #7

henrikschroder wrote: post #3

Betteridge's law probably applies.

Actual title of the article is "Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor" Hopefully dang or some other mod can fix the title

Post by johannesbeil » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #12

eganist wrote: post #4

Fascinating. I'd put a bit more faith in this one on the grounds that 1) the Navy probably wouldn't waste legal cycles on filling this one if it hadn't been reduced to practice, and 2) there looks like there's still energy lost to heat, if I'm reading correctly: > An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibrati…

> the Navy probably wouldn't waste legal cycles on filling this one if it hadn't been reduced to practice I'm not so sure I share your prior that the Navy works carefully to avoid doing anything wasteful of manpower.