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People have completely unrealistic expectations. Even if we find superconducting properties, it doesn't mean we can scale this material and its properties to th
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
People have completely unrealistic expectations. Even if we find superconducting properties, it doesn't mean we can scale this material and its properties to the level where we'll use it for all those fantastic purposes like loss-free energy transfer for the entire electric grid, or effortlessly levitating trains.
Remember graphene. This is at best graphene 2.0. Meaning it's a small step and a lot of work left to do.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI mean... Even if it was absurdly expensive to manufacture and shape, and insanely temperamental/quench happy, it would still revolutionize high end motors (like in power plants), energy storage through toroidal batteries, some electronics, satellites/probes, many sensors, all sorts of scientific equipment... Nitrogen/Helium cooled superconductors are already used in some of these places, at tremendous cost and difficulty, and some of those are very finicky.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoRemember graphene. Oh, also it's a ceramic, so good luck using it in motors and so on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_engine
- barelyauser 3y agoCeramic permanent magnets generators are used in windmills. The comparison you made with ceramic blocks for internal combustion engines is nonsense and honestly it appears you brought it up solely to reinforce some bias of yours. If you have nothing to contribute to the topic I suggest you refrain from misleading others.