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In terms of costs your thresholds are the boiling points of nitrogen (77K, surprisingly cheap and easy to deal with, even for a hobbyist) and helium (33K, more
by Iv 8y ago
In terms of costs your thresholds are the boiling points of nitrogen (77K, surprisingly cheap and easy to deal with, even for a hobbyist) and helium (33K, more expensive,scarce, requires more energy to condense). To get lower than that, you need your own cryogenic cascade as I doubt you can easily buy something as ridiculously dangerous as liquid hydrogen (boiling point of 4K, explosive in contact with oxygen).
At less than 2K I think that the only merits of this discovery are theoretical.
I don't think that anyone believes that superconductors below nitrogen temperature have any viability outside the lab.
- Dylan16807 8y agoYou mixed up the temperatures for hydrogen and helium.
- Iv 8y agoThanks!
- lgats 8y agoliquid hydrogen safety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFJK5kU_UQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFJK5kU_UQ [it doesn't explode on contact with air]