New super conductor

[billshurv]

Read an article today where bascially the global superconductor research community have ganged up on these guys and hoisted the BS flag. But seems a lot of researchers have been having fun trying to make the stuff.

 

[Audio>X]

The most fascinating thing to me about 'Superconductor Materials' to date is that
they are not simple elements or alloys, but unique blends of things - like a cooking recipe.
Who would have thought 🙂

 

[Audio>X]

When it comes to "room temperature" Superconductivity, and useful/productive Nuclear Fusion >
I am not at all sure which would 'win' first ???
From an 'odds & betting' perspective, I would love to hear peoples opinions 🙂

 

[benb]

Every ten or twenty years there’s an article on room temperature superconductivity and audiophiles get conniptions thinking finally, they will be able to see Diana Krall right there in the room.

I recall the late 1970s and talk of Josephson junctions and the then-future fast supercomputers that would use them, one supposed-theoretical application for a room-temperature superconductor was in a phono cartridge. I wonder if the difference in resistance of the windings being zero would help much at all.