Have scientists in Korea discovered the first room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor?

[Wirko]

That's because 100+ years ago, the country didn't know lead was toxic. So we built a lot of water-pipes out of lead and then people drank out of those pipes. Oops.

Today, we have 100+ year old infrastructure in need of replacement. For now, its "easier" to just add more chemicals that prevent lead from leeching into the weater, but when those chemical balances go haywire... well... we all know what happened there.

Leaded brass with ~2% Pb is still used to make some plumbing products such as valves, water meters and faucets/taps. Lead is of some concern there, and there are efforts to reduce lead content, but not to ban it completely, at least not in the EU or US. California has very strict regulation allowing no more than 0.25% Pb in brass for plumbing purposes (Wikipedia) but that seems to be an exception.

 

[joemama]

I'm not worried about the lead though, it's super conductive at 127℃ so the applications are probably really limited

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

I'm not worried about the lead though, it's super conductive at 127℃ so the applications are probably really limited

According to claims, it would be superconductive UP TO 127 C.

Critical temperature of superconductor means it's a superconductor at any temperature below it.

And you shoud definitely worry about lead, as it causes brain degeneration and is hypothesized to increase crime rates.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Talk with Bard about LK-99.
This link must paint in color in PDF document when be downloaded and opened, the part inside with temperature range of superconductivity of material.

 

[Wirko]

Very important yes,

'easily be the most important discovery in history'

I don't think so, but Nobel prize level yes.

This might be an important discovery even if it's *not* a superconductor and/or not worthy of a Nobel prize. That would be the case if the research group discovered and characterised a crystal structure or state of matter or something else that was unknown before (but seems to have some use). I don't follow the developent of solid state physics so can't judge, but others may have informed opinions on that.

 

[Mister300]

I seem to recall being told that half of the electrical power to Tucson is lost in tramsission; we are not going to reject a lossless transmission system due to lead.

Trust me the global green elite will outlaw it, plus this shit is not ductile how are you going to make millions of miles of cable of of this material?

 

[mb194dc]

No is the highly probable answer. Believe it when it's been replicated by others who have rock solid credibility...

 

[TheLostSwede]

A US company seems to be making similar claims.

Patent: Above Room Temperature Type II Superconductor - Taj Quantum

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, July 31, 2023 TAJ QUANTUM AWARDED PATENT FOR GROUNDBREAKING TYPE II SUPERCONDUCTOR **Orlando, FL -** Taj Quantum, a pioneer in quantum technology and blockchain-based authentication systems, is pleased to announce the awarding of a patent by the...

tajquantum.com

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Trust me the global green elite will outlaw it, plus this shit is not ductile how are you going to make millions of miles of cable of of this material?

PCB or other components with superconductor structures is more interesting for me in context of the TPU relation.

 

[Shrek]

Or transformers; I wonder how strong a field it can tolerate before losing its superconductivity.

If non ductile, the material can be held in tubes.

 

[Assimilator]

Positive initial indications: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments

... two other new preprints interest me greatly. One is from a team at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, and the other is from Sinéad Griffin at Lawrence Berkeley. Both start from the reported X-ray structural data of LK-99 and look at its predicted behavior via density functional theory (DFT) calculations. And they come to very similar conclusions: it could work.

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This is by far the most believable shot at room-temperature-and-pressure superconductivity the world has seen so far...

 

[Mister300]

Haven't seen anyone replicate the results yet but it already seems very impressive in the video

So is this frog levitation experiments