For the record, this is what good science journalism looks like. :) Thanks, Quanta. These are enticing developments. Please, someone blow a hole in physics already - we've been stuck too long. A...
For the record, this is what good science journalism looks like. :) Thanks, Quanta.
These are enticing developments. Please, someone blow a hole in physics already - we've been stuck too long. A breakthrough like this is precisely what we need to inspire the imagination and get back on track again. Having room temperature superconductors is also one of the key breakthroughs that would really take the gloves off of green energy, enabling lossless transmission across great distances, instead of losing most of the energy with the inverse square of the distance like we do now. It'd make green energy ultra-competitive in the market, and thus the market would finally end our reliance on fossil fuels, since we can't seem to get there any other way. The efficiency gains would be larger than our entire net power generation capacity is today (well, once we upgrade all the power grids, but we need to do that anyway). Levitation would solve so many transport problems. We'd get our flying cars, finally (kinda) as a bonus! And yes, this means hoverboards. ;)
For the record, this is what good science journalism looks like. :) Thanks, Quanta.
These are enticing developments. Please, someone blow a hole in physics already - we've been stuck too long. A breakthrough like this is precisely what we need to inspire the imagination and get back on track again. Having room temperature superconductors is also one of the key breakthroughs that would really take the gloves off of green energy, enabling lossless transmission across great distances, instead of losing most of the energy with the inverse square of the distance like we do now. It'd make green energy ultra-competitive in the market, and thus the market would finally end our reliance on fossil fuels, since we can't seem to get there any other way. The efficiency gains would be larger than our entire net power generation capacity is today (well, once we upgrade all the power grids, but we need to do that anyway). Levitation would solve so many transport problems. We'd get our flying cars, finally (kinda) as a bonus! And yes, this means hoverboards. ;)