Pushing Towards Room-Temperature Superconductivity

[Daysman]

Physics - Viewpoint: Pushing Towards Room-Temperature Superconductivity

The results bode well for the search for room-temperature superconductors—the reported materials could already work without the need for cooling on an average winter night in the Arctic!

 

[Brian G Turner]

I read an article this week about similar experiments, I believe with an iron base, and thought about how I've been reading articles like that since the late 80's/early 90's - yet the superconductivity revolution remains as elusive as ever.

 

[Daysman]

I read an article this week about similar experiments, I believe with an iron base, and thought about how I've been reading articles like that since the late 80's/early 90's - yet the superconductivity revolution remains as elusive as ever.

Much like controlled nuclear fusion...

 

[Brian G Turner]

Maybe we should think less about room-temperature applications and more about space-based ones where cold isn't so much of a problem?

 

[Daysman]

Agreed...

I was thinking about terrestrial infrastructure required for solar power, shuffling energy out from the equator and from continent to continent, as the world turns... lossless transmission of energy, however it works, would be very cool...

Then there's storage...

 

[Venusian Broon]

Maybe we should think less about room-temperature applications and more about space-based ones where cold isn't so much of a problem?

Exactly, in a thousand years we could be well on our way to making a Dyson swarm around the sun, eventually leading to billions of O'Neil habitats with a combined surface area for life millions times that of the Earth, anti-matter generators and extracting matter from the sun to continue building (hopefully using artificial fusion to at least Carbon atoms). Power would be transmitted via EM waves, or if your on the space side of all these artefacts, via simple superconductors.

Room temperature and actual planets will be *so* primitive

Or maybe we won't, who knows!