If you take one of the guy's accounts at face value he first identified it as a compound of interest in 1999, then 19 years later finally drummed up enough private funding to investigate and founded a company for it in 2018.
Which if true makes all the money wasted on social studies in the last few decades even more regrettable, if the offer of room temp super conductors was just sitting on the table like that
As unfortunate as it would be, one of the few ways markets don't work.
If it works it'll be stolen by all countries regardless of any patents and you'll get nothing, if not you might get some patent on a process and not lose everything.
If you take one of the guy's accounts at face value he first identified it as a compound of interest in 1999, then 19 years later finally drummed up enough private funding to investigate and founded a company for it in 2018.
Which if true makes all the money wasted on social studies in the last few decades even more regrettable, if the offer of room temp super conductors was just sitting on the table like that
Not just social sciences. Almost all "science".
As unfortunate as it would be, one of the few ways markets don't work.
If it works it'll be stolen by all countries regardless of any patents and you'll get nothing, if not you might get some patent on a process and not lose everything.
Only philanthropy can fund this kind of research.