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submitted 1 year ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/science@beehaw.org

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[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How big kinda depends...

The two limits on superconductor performance are:

It will soon go to National Labs to establish those parameters

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even if it's useless it's a massive step forwards in superconductor development

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

I guess you could say that even if it has low electric and magnetic capacity it still will have a giant impact on industry. But not all industries.

[–] unomar@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I understand, even if the current and magnetic field of this superconductor are low, it has:

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

The original finding was written by experienced chemists, not physicists. There are some problems where solutions are searched for in the wrong directions.
Our current generation of YCBO-based high-temperature superconductors started out as low-field, low-current, highly strain-sensitive, and over 30+ years of engineering development, these now carry >1000 amps/mm^2 in fields as high as 10T (although these numbers trade off against each other). It's a matter of time.