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  1. Uses for room temp superconductors on Ask Slashdot: How Would Room-Temp Superconductors Affect Us? · · Score: 1

    If they don't need power hungry refrigeration, they are useful as"

    - Nearly 100% efficient storage batteries
    - Protection against ionizing radiation
    - A really good regenerative braking system, maybe no engine needed.
    - High speed vehicle suspension system, like maglev trains and cars
    - Railguns
    - If they can sustain high Tesla fields they might be good for armor against metal shrapnel
    - Ion drive space ship engines
    - Lossless spinning reserve power generation
    - Better sound reproduction using magnetostriction drivers
    - Research into magnetic monopoles
    - Magnetic refrigerators using magnetic hysteresis effects - extremely efficient
    - Plasma torches
    - Your turn to be creative

  2. Re:This device empowers criminals. on NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns · · Score: 1

    The next generation scans at 80 foot range. I will be used to scan crowds, political gatherings, VIP meetings, etc. Count on on your privacy being violated. Anyone know how to build a cheap device that puts out gray noise in the T-wave range?