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Comment by obblekk

The method to produce this material as described in the related paper [1] is fairly simple and could be done at home with a $200 home metal melting furnace from amazon and the precursors (which also seem to be fairly standard easy to obtain metals).

If this is real, I'd expect some smart people from hackaday / youtube to reproduce this within weeks if not days.

If this is real, it'll change society quickly and permanently for the better. There's obvious wins in energy transportation and even generation, but actually having a room temperature superconductor is likely to result in an explosion of engineering use cases. It will be like the discovery of lithium ion which slowly transformed the use of energy throughout society, but faster.

Hopefully it repros.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12037.pdf page 3

parent obblekk 3 years ago

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