• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      110K (-163C, -262F) is still a significant improvement in cryo temperatures required for superconductivity. It no longer requires liquid helium temperatures for things like MRI magnets. So even if this is not a “holy grail” room temperature SC- it still enables the use of much cheaper commodity cryogenics like liquid nitrogen for use in scientific and industrial superconductors.

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      1 year ago

      honestly i’d be happy with a LN2 superconductor that works for MRI.

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        1 year ago

        Isn’t rebco tape already a decent candidate for that, and much further along in development pipelines?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      The more independent tests come out the less it’s looking like this is a superconductor. There might still be something interesting going on here, but I’m becoming skeptical of the original claims myself.