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Room Temperature Superconductor?
About a week ago, a paper was released about a new material called LK-99, which some scientists claim can be used to create a room-temperature and pressure-ambient superconductor.
If this is true, we are witnessing the biggest physics breakthrough of our lifetimes.
I am not a physicist but I know this would be a HUGE deal.
We lose 3 nuclear reactors worth of electricity each year to the friction inherent in electricity transmission. Superconductors fix this by enabling lossless electricity transmission.
However, superconductors are currently impractical due to their need of extremely low temperatures and high pressure.
This new paper claims that LK-99 can be produced in 34 hours with extremely basic lab equipment.
If true, then better nuclear reactors, quantum computers, batteries, MRI machines, MagLev trains, electric grids, etc etc, are just around the corner.
Basically, it would make everything in technology much better.
It’s still unclear whether the scientist’s findings are legit, as the paper was not peer-reviewed, and many conduction experts are casting doubt on the paper’s claims:
- The undoped material, lead apatite, is a nonconducting mineral, which doesn’t seem to make it a great candidate for superconductivity.
- The paper is light on details about the physics at play.
But there are definitely some encouraging signs that this thing is for real:
- The lead researcher is Him is the science community.
- LK-99 is extremely easy to replicate. It doesn’t make sense to publish something that can be proven incorrect in 34 hours.
- The paper was published with only 3 leads, which is typically done because you think you are going to win the Nobel Prize (as it can only be split 3 ways).
I'm expecting for new news to come out soon.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) on X
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But, given they had the balls to publish a version with 3 names, they for sure think they've got it and so I've got to imagine they've rerun this and had additional reviews before publishing.
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