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I was hoping Ultraconductors[1,1a] would make it out of the lab, and into general use... but the crash of 2008 apparently killed them off. (OR... it was a scam
by mikewarot 2y ago
I was hoping Ultraconductors[1,1a] would make it out of the lab, and into general use... but the crash of 2008 apparently killed them off. (OR... it was a scam all along. The patent they reference [2] is for a polymer about as conductive as the nichrome wires you use in your toaster)
The other patent they reference[3]... does claim 10^11 S/cm, which is about a million times as conductive as silver.
Imagine what you could do with power cables a million times as conductive as silver.
[1] http://www.superconductors.org/ultra.htm http://www.superconductors.org/ultra.htm
[1a] https://web.archive.org/web/20090201200804/http://ultraconductors.com/about_us.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090201200804/http://ultracondu...
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en
[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6552883/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6552883/en