[Utilizer]

If this is true, this can revolution quite a few industries overnight! I can think of several related applications that have the potential to change radically. Not just Power and Energy, Batteries and Hard Drives can also be greatly transformed.

[ClearCase_guy]

It's getting closer.

[TChad]

Great stuff.

[Innovative]

Interesting.

I think science will be the solution to a lot of problems, NOT government. If there is anything worthwhile that the government should be spending money on is research, not handouts.

[Revolting cat!]

This month’s (kinda early in the month) revolutionary new technology that’ll turn the (flat earth?) world upside down.

(Then we hear crickets.)

[MUDDOG]

They revolutionize it before I even learn the basics. Sheesh.

[Bobalu]

They are NOT talking about room-temperature superconductors.

Room-temp superconductors are the holy grail of electrical engineering. That’s what the unobtainium was that they were mining in the sci-fi film “Avatar”

These materials they are talking about are still at very low temperatures.

[backwoods-engineer]

It’s already done so. Giant magnetoresistance is a spintronic effect.

[The Cajun]

Bookmark.

[InterceptPoint]

I remember well when we used lead at liquid helium temperatures to achieve superconductivity. In the case I’m familiar with it was used to seal out external magnetic fields from affecting Masers working at liquid helium temperatures. These devices were capable of achieving Noise Temperatures of the order of 10 degrees Kelvin. Amazing stuff.

Nice to see the slow but steady progress towards room temperature superconductivity. Very slow. But still moving forward. It is a potentially revolutionary technology.