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Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881808 - July 2023 (434 comments)
The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624 - July 2023 (858 comments)
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I think it's unlikely in this case. They seem to have gone out of their way to show a method that can achieve replication using very common materials and pretty much medieval-grade technology (except for the vacuum pump, maybe).
Ok, if that's the case, why the imperfect demonstration? Why not dozens and dozens of videos showing such a monumental success in action? The lack of clear evidence, especially with social media frenzies, is a red flag in my opinion.
"this may spark a revolution in electronics as significant as the invention of the transistor, vacuum tube, and induction motor." How, exactly?
Superconductors are in the name. They're ideal conductors. As a corollary, superconductors coiled into a wire, shaped like an inductor, are also ideal inductors. By ideal, I informally mean nearly perfect in a mathematical sense. A thin superconductor can carry an almost arbitrary amount of electricity with 0% loss. This is a real-world application already for superconductors, but it requires cooling the entire condu…
Could this be used to make a bomb?
If the new material really is as easy to manufacture as it seems, could homegrown terrorists easily create WMDs?
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People were arguing about this earlier (some claimimg the opposite) but I didn't see a conclusion. Do you have an external citation handy?
I was one of the people who said power is wasted in wires. When the charged stored inside a chip needs to change (like go from high to low), that energy associated with the charge needs to go somewhere. Currently most of the charge is dissipated in the wire and some of it within the transistor. If the wires have no resistance, the transistor will be the one dissipating the energy, not the energy simply disappears. So…
Just for fun: Am I the only one who thinks there's connection between this and the UAP news that's coming out? RTSC would probably enable a lot of incredible energy & maneuverability capabilities... Sorry, indulging in a little off-topic conspiracy theorizing.
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Someone posted a ChatGPT answer, which seems a pretty good response: Energy Efficiency: Superconductors conduct electricity without resistance, which means they don't produce heat as a byproduct. This could make electronic devices more energy-efficient and help them run cooler, which could extend battery life in mobile devices and potentially reduce the need for cooling in larger devices like computers. Processing Sp…
Asking the AI in my pocket what the new superconductor technology can do for society. We’re kinda in the future, and that’s neat.
Ironically, if this problem does get solved, you could have the whole AI system in your pocket.
Just for fun: Am I the only one who thinks there's connection between this and the UAP news that's coming out? RTSC would probably enable a lot of incredible energy & maneuverability capabilities... Sorry, indulging in a little off-topic conspiracy theorizing.
Grusch has talked to people who work in information constrained spaces working on advanced materials with fancy codenames. If he was able to give literally any proof besides words coming out of his mouth and "trust me bro, they could be interdimensional", I would give him some credence, but there is nothing.
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Can you summarize his position? Can't see X posts without a login.
He’s just some guy at an aerospace startup who is trying to make some lol. Problem with his approach is that the synthesis requires some materials that are restricted to academic/scientific labs (like red phosphorus), so he’s probably not going to be first to replicate.