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Re: A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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Post by qbasic_forever »

bhouston wrote: post #64
mmh0000 wrote: post #41

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But fear the news if it is discovered that LK-99 increases AI performance.

I'm sure Elon also has SpaceX or something trying to replicate it as well. He sort of has to jump on each new trend anyhow. In a serious note, superconductors are likely useful in electric magnetic motors and probably in high power electronics and batteries in general, no?

LK-99 is already patented so even if Elon were making a ton of it, he couldn't do much in his products without licensing it from the creators.

Re: A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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Post by fredoliveira »

lalopalota wrote: post #24
Ajay-p wrote: post #19

I still have a very, very hard time understanding what all of this means. Is there an easy to understand explanation for a room temperature superconductor?

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It takes very little to try and explain a concept to someone asking for pointers — assuming of course, you know the topic at hand. Your response is as unhelpful as it gets.

Re: A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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Post by scythmic_waves »

vasco wrote: post #66

How likely is this to lead to breaking all encryption by enabling way bigger superconducting quantum computers with way more qubits than are reasonable nowadays? Is this just going to turn into cyberwar on steroids?

There are post-quantum-computing encryption schemes [1], thankfully.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

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Post by typon »

fallingknife wrote: post #49
7moritz7 wrote: post #17

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I have seen three now from China alone. Plus a calculation from some respected institute from today that confirms the theory

Why are they all from China? Why are they able to replicate so much faster than US labs?

You will hear many explanations, but the real one is that the US leadership in hard science is fading. We are too cerebral and cyber - Asia has picked up the mantle now.

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Post by [deleted] »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #81
bhouston wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure Elon also has SpaceX or something trying to replicate it as well. He sort of has to jump on each new trend anyhow. In a serious note, superconductors are likely useful in electric magnetic motors and probably in high power electronics and batteries in general, no?

LK-99 is already patented so even if Elon were making a ton of it, he couldn't do much in his products without licensing it from the creators.

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Post by Zanneth »

fallingknife wrote: post #49
7moritz7 wrote: post #17

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I have seen three now from China alone. Plus a calculation from some respected institute from today that confirms the theory

Why are they all from China? Why are they able to replicate so much faster than US labs?

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Post by Geee »

makeworld wrote: post #71
Geee wrote: post #51

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Can you point to a source of these superconducting energy storage mechanisms? How do they work? I briefly looked into it and found out that at least the current ones have very high power density, but low energy density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

That's what I meant. It states energy density as 40 kJ/L. Lithium batteries have energy density up to 2.5 MJ/L. Fossil fuels and hydrogen way more.

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Post by p1mrx »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #42
sandworm101 wrote: post #32

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And a great many people also want you to believe. Just remember: don't give anyone any money, not until this is properly verified.

Who could you possibly give money for this? It's not like there's a as-seen-on-TV ad for superconductors. But I agree that it needs a healthy dose of skepticism until several reputable groups have replicated it.

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