[Steely Tom]

I think 'superconductivity' essentially means a forward drop of zero volts.......................

That's what I'm alluding to. I guess that's why this discovery is a big deal, or one reason anyway.

It's got to have a forward drop. Otherwise Maxwell's Daemon could be made to do useful work.

[Red Badger]

Maxwell never heard of superconductivity...............

[calenel]

“It’s got to have a forward drop. Otherwise Maxwell’s Daemon could be made to do useful work.”

There would be a drop once any work was performed. But, at least in one direction, not until.

This is a major event in technological advancement for our species, if for real.

The concern that I noted is the vulnerability to magnetic fields. That could make this tech too fragile for a lot of applications.

[marktwain]

It's got to have a forward drop. Otherwise Maxwell's Daemon could be made to do useful work.

I do not believe that is correct.

Persistence is not doing work.

A rock traveling through space preserves its energy. It is not violating entropy.

[DiogenesLamp]

It's got to have a forward drop. Otherwise Maxwell's Daemon could be made to do useful work.

I saw an article awhile back that said they had cracked that. They had built some contraption that could extract energy from heat in a new way.