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To: Utilizer

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.


12 posted on 12/08/2013 7:13:47 PM PST by Bobalu (White Boy Think A Lot)
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To: 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.

Yes, but compare that to the discovery of aluminum so many years ago and how expensive it was at the time to refine it.

Untill some enterprising young genius came up with a way to refine the aluminum oxide he had to almost pure aluminum metal using a totally new electrical application to do so.

Times change, and faster and faster it seems.

17 posted on 12/08/2013 8:01:08 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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