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A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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Post by TomK32 »

jvm___ wrote: post #102
anyoneamous wrote: post #30

Mostly, I am just glad that all the LK-99 posts are drowning out the "AI" news for a few days.

AI has already taken over the internet and is just feeding us news stories based on what it already knows. Super conductor discovered by a team who's been searching for 20 years. Internal conflict 'proves' there's something to argue over. Low quality, confusing information that's hard to decipher, but kind of makes sense. Asian language information streams and videos. Musk buys twitter. A submarine visited the titani…

ChatGPT please rewrite this in a language of the King James bible.

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Post by daveguy »

pjmorris wrote: post #57
mmh0000 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Or the news that ChatGPT is attempting an LK-99 replication.

Yes. Using the well known ChatGPT manufacturing capabilities.

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Post by swader999 »

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?

It's hard to get red phosphorous in USA.

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Post by hughw »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Founders soliciting investment, for one.

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Post by hanniabu »

digdugdirk wrote: post #25
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?

It's a conductor of electricity. But super good at it. i.e. - It has zero resistance to electricity. Currently, the best superconducting materials we can create have to be chilled to near absolute zero, which means designing them to work in liquid helium baths. This is expensive, and difficult. If a material can superconduct at room temperature, now we're talking usage in general purpose consumer goods. As for why we…

Would a room-temp superconductor make it feasible to cover desert regions with solar panels and transport the electricity long distances?

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Post by Cypher »

elfbargpt wrote: post #77
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

Throughout this whole saga I've had this feeling that at the very least we can rely on China to really pursue this new development to it's logical end. It's kind of sad, but I don't think I can say the same about the US at this moment. You know for a fact China's going to JUMP on this, figure out if it works or not, and iterate.

China leads the way, US wants to decline and rest

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Post by mrandish »

> They also predict that substituting gold atoms into the Pb(1) site could lead to a material with very similar properties, which will be an extremely interesting idea to put to the test.

Since the base material is lead apatite, I had a random thought that maybe medieval alchemists trying to turn lead into gold just had it backward, as doping gold into lead might be a breakthrough. :-)

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Post by pharrington »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

In addition to what the other commenters said, I'm imagining most of the replication attempts in the USA are happening in chemical corporations. Compared to academic labs, the corps have much easier access to highly regulated materials and FAR stricter communication protocols.
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