Room temperature superconductor found

[hellrazor]

The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found

A compound of carbon, hydrogen and sulfur conducts electricity without resistance up to 15° C, but there’s a catch: It works only under high pressure.

www.sciencenews.org

It super conducts at 15 Celsius, but it also needs 38 million PSI.

 

[mtcn77]

What is this, solid hydrogen?

PS: I think they already use hydrogen and carbon in the making of diamonds, so this must be a sulfur diamond.

 

[Beertintedgoggles]

At that pressure, 15 C is damn near equivalent to absolute zero! Awesome stuff though.

 

[blobster21]

They basically swapped one huge constraint (extreme low temperature) against another ( extreme high pressure)

 

[sam_86314]

They basically swapped one huge constraint (extreme low temperature) against another ( extreme high pressure)

"We got our supercomputer to only use 3 microamps under load!"

"...with an input voltage of 15 billion volts."

The title of that article is a bit clickbaity. It's technically true, but...

 

[mtcn77]

"We got our supercomputer to only use 3 microamps under load!"

"...with an input voltage of 15 billion volts."

The title of that article is a bit clickbaity. It's technically true, but...

That's 6.75Mw, isn't it?