Slashdot Mirror
A New Family of High-Temperature Superconductors
sciencehabit writes to let us know that physicists are hailing the discovery of a new type of superconductor as a "major advance." The new materials could solve the biggest mystery in condensed matter physics — i.e., how and why cuprate superconductors work — as well as paving the way for practical magnetic levitation and lossless transmission of energy. "God only knows where it will go," says one Nobel Laureate. After the discovery of superconductivity in an iron-and-arsenic compound at 26 kelvin, several Chinese research groups quickly found related materials that are superconducting up to 55K. (Cuprates go as high as 138K; liquid nitrogen boils at 77K.)
as well as paving the way for practical magnetic levitation
Awesome! Can't wait for my superconductor magnetic levitation bed!
You just got troll'd!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Of course, at 77k, you could run the lines through Soviet Russia... in the summertime! aaa ha ha ha. /isr temperature jokes
Yeah, how are we going to 'fend for ourselves' without superconductors? :O
which is totally what she said
Where do you get $1k/L? A quick google search turns up $3-5 per liter
Well duh! He's talking about MEDICAL liquid HE which is obviously much more expensive than normal liquid HE. Ever get a bandaid put on at a hospital?
I believe you mean -135 degrees celsius.
That last twenty degrees is what keeps Minnesota from superconducting in winter.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
You're reading it wrong. He's saying that the only thing God knows is that where this superconductor technology will go. That's a very strange statement. It's hard to imagine having that piece of data be the only thing you know.