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Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor
StarEmperor writes "A team of Canadian and German scientists have fabricated a room-temperature superconductor, using a highly compressed silicon-hydrogen compound. According to the article,"The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature.""
Can it keep beer cool at room temperature?
Like Leonard Bernstein, for instance?
Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska have just created a room temperature superconductor.
the scientists, that is...
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
So, lets say this eventually becomes a common technology (doubtful, but lets pretend). When do we get to stop calling them 'super'conductors? When the super becomes the common, is it still super? Like the evolution of memory classification in DOS. Before the advent of the NY kernal, I spent considerable time trying to remember the difference between conventional, extended, expanded, upper, and high memory. I think the main reason DOS gave way to Windows was Microsoft ran out of superlatives....
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* Room-temperature superconductors
* Computers that explode violently
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
give it my job. There's more than enough pressure.
You mean like Scott Weiland?
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!!
I'm just predicting a dupe on Slashdot in 20 years.
No doubt. Think of the awesome stereo cables you could make with these!!!
Superconducting speaker cables and interconnects....the audiophiles dream!!
No wooden knob needed.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
"You can design a pressure vessel such that the pressure only escapes via small known locations (any valve or seal), whereas cold always escapes in all directions. "
Feh. You were obviously not brought up in my house. Cold goes only through the open door. Ask my father.
(And yes, we both know that cold doesn't go anywhere, heat does...)
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Superconducting speaker cables! Woohooo!
Of course, by then you won't want to buy just any SPCs, it will have been proven that Monster premium SPCs superconduct much better than cheapo cables...
"I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans..." --Wintermute, William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
When the Earth's gravitationally pole flips once again, humans will have to carry super-conducting electromagnet umbrellas with them to avoid the mass-extinction causing radiation.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
kinetic energy is not a thing but a property dependent on inertial reference frame of observer
It's turtles all the way down
Surely we'll have to wait for directional, oxygen-free, hand-plaited, super-conducting cables that only come pre-cut in matched sets with superconducting power cables. Of course, such cables would be incomplete without solid gold plugs fitted by deaf vestal virgins and a name that gratuitously includes the words "Reference" or "Ultimate". My stereo is quivering in anticipation ;)
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
Said material melts at 88 kelvins. It'd be like galvanizing an ice cream cone.
Well, maybe this works at room temperature at The University of Saskatchewan, but down here in tropical Michigan, we still have significant work to do!
Terminator brains are superconducting at room temperature as I recall, IANASES ( I am not a SkyNet engineering subroutine ).
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Ummm - tell them their Moms are in the audience?
yup, and I tell ya what, the legs o' them broad-backed world supportin'turtles is good eatin!
No wooden knob needed.
No, you'd still need the audiophile.
(i kid because i care... ok, you caught me. I don't really care)
Darth --
Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
An intertial reference frame is not a thing. An inertial reference frame is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a Duracell battery. (Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.)
The huge disparity between on-chip clocks and bus/memory clocks will increase the pressure on Intel and AMD to push as much circuitry on-chip as possible.
Yes, but will it increase the pressure enough to achieve superconductivity?
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No way! The cold sound of a superconductor cable cannot be compared to that warm, round sound of a vintage copper cable.
Run a few loops of it around the equator, put a big enough current through it and you could put Magnetic North on top of True North, where it bloody well should be.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
Brain, is that you? Narf!
With this new technology, I imagine a lot fewer people will be alive to say this. Overclockers beware-- these chips will let YOUR smoke out too!