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When I told my wife about this, all she replied was how it's gonna be monopolized by big countries/big tech and our third world country like ours will never use
by onion2k 3y ago
When I told my wife about this, all she replied was how it's gonna be monopolized by big countries/big tech and our third world country like ours will never use it.
The materials and hardware required to make LK-99 are within the reach of a high school. It's really simple and doesn't require anything more than a very hot oven (hotter than a domestic one, but still very common). If it'd turned out to be a real superconductor anyone who wanted to make it could have done.
- aslfjiasf 3y agoI'm not sure about that. So many people had hard time synthesizing LK-99, and the original researchers said that even for themselves only 1 out of 10 attempts to create a material succeeded. The pure LK-99 crystals pictured in the article were obtained using more advanced technique: "Unlike previous synthesis attempts that relied on crucibles, the researchers used a technique called floating zone crystal growth that allowed them to avoid introducing sulfur into the reaction, eliminating the Cu2S impurities." But I agree that if there's money to be made, it will be available world wide quickly.