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GP was talking specifically about the approach in the article, which requires massively high pressures to sustain, not superconduction in general. I don't think
by gipp 6y ago
GP was talking specifically about the approach in the article, which requires massively high pressures to sustain, not superconduction in general. I don't think the required pressures are really practical for any of the things you listed.
- dheera 6y agoSure, it's not ready for those use cases yet, but the fact that it has been achieved at room temperature is a milestone, and those use cases are things that would benefit from room temperature superconductivity.
- hutzlibu 6y agoNo, it is not. Even though the goal at "room temperature" is technically met, it is misleading, because the goal "room temperature" meant superconducting under quite normal conditions to be of practical use. And when you have to apply that immense pressure it means we did not really come closer to superconducting in the normal world. Still a success, yes, but probably not a milestone, unless that discovery leads to other findings, but I do not see anything indicating such.