Hate to say it, but this does not look good. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/40?fbclid=IwAR2zt-i2hYfRZVlJMkKWClYoagaw0dCxxrAvusBMGOqLTOpBOgMPL8HMsaU
LC On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 5:05:13 PM UTC-6 Lawrence Crowell wrote: > On Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:18:09 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > > The physicists have been promising room temp supercon since 1987 correct? > Tell you what? If the lads or ladies in the labs had big league help from > an advanced computer system, then it's a big thing. It would also mean that > the science team had a fat enough budget. > > Commercially, if this is the real thing, where do you see its application? > > > I suspect the primary application will be in computer circuitry. The > pressure quoted here could be handled if this is within a crystal; the > solid material would provide the pressure by its elasticity. The prospect > is then computer circuitry could readily use Josephson junction physics. > > LC > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Clark <[email protected]> > To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Mar 8, 2023 2:20 pm > Subject: A room temperature superconductor > > In today's issue of the journal Nature there is a report on the discovery > of a room temperature superconductor, it's a compound of hydrogen, nitrogen > and lutetium, the researchers claim it remains a superconductor up to a > blistering 69.8°F, although you need to pressurize it to about 10 times the > pressure you get at the bottom of the Marianas Trench for it to work, that > sounds like a lot of pressure but it's 100 times less than the pressure > required in previous similar compounds. If this turns out to be true it > could be a big deal but the same group made a similar claim a few years ago > and then had to retract it so the work needs to be confirmed by others ; > still it was published in the journal Nature and that's about as > respectable as you can get so it must have something going for it. > > A Room-Temperature Superconductor > <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > 6rw > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2-BOppr_3tiJBrz7SZp8nUZVuO8OCwEA3d5L0i7mL7iQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2-BOppr_3tiJBrz7SZp8nUZVuO8OCwEA3d5L0i7mL7iQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/80633ca3-fab6-4972-ad6a-1bc611aeb0cfn%40googlegroups.com.
