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Maybe, but the same was already said when cuprate SC appeared in the late eighties with their relatively high critical T°, but they haven't really fulfilled the
by littlestymaar 3y ago
Maybe, but the same was already said when cuprate SC appeared in the late eighties with their relatively high critical T°, but they haven't really fulfilled their promise…
- chasd00 3y agoIirc the LHC experiment would not be possible without those superconductors. That’s a pretty big deal.
- RyEgswuCsn 3y agoAre they really the same though? I mean we are talking about room temperature, not the"(relatively) high temperature", a term that is arguably misleading to a layperson. I'd imagine most people who are informed of the difference would recognize that cuprate SC is nowhere near as useful.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoEvery article older than a couple weeks talking about superconductors goes on and on about how useful they are, except for the logistics of keeping them cold Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energy_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene...
- littlestymaar 3y agoSuperconductors suporting high current are incredibly useful, but that's a big caveat. There's a reason MRI scans still use the super tedious helium-cooling instead of a much simpler nitrogen cooking allowed by cuprates: the cuprates SC aren't good enough for MRI.