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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
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Researchers have discovered a new compound called LK-99 that could enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Two separate sources have provided very preliminary confirmations of this breakthrough, including a simulation indicating it could be possible and a short video from Chinese researchers that seems to indicate some properties of superconductivity.

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[–] 53 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Yep. This is one of those world changing tech advances.

Replication is a huge step.

But I temper the excitement with the memory that I read my first The Coming Room Temp Superconductor revolution 30 or so years ago. IIRC it was a cover story in Scientific American in the early 90s.

That said, fuck I hope they have cracked a scalable RTS.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    Agreed, I want to believe so bad, but the Meisner effect is so easy to fake with cameras that even video proof doesn’t cut it for me. I guess at this point it’ll take a preprint from a National Lab . Thankfully that won’t take long apparently given how easy this is to synthesize.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The 90s were 30 years ago? Damn.

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