In this post-truth society, I'm going to assume it's a fraud.
You'll know when a true and accurate scientific discovery is made when the leftist academics scramble to attribute the work to a woman instead of the men that actually invented it.
I think my favorite piece of gaslighting was that movie where they claimed a bunch of fat black women are who really got us to the moon.
I've actually met the guy who programmed that guidance chip and the trajectory analysis for the moon landing. He told me that there wasn't a black woman within a mile of the physicists at NASA.
He was one of the junior scientists. He told me he'd have been shocked to see a black woman working there because the senior scientists were all Nazis. Von Braun and all his guys.
These days it has to be a sub-saharan African child.
Like that kid who invented a miraculous energy generator that harvested people's footsteps in sidewalks to power houses. Even got awards from the usual European NGOs and governments. Green energy for free!!1
Except when some racist, far-right extremist conspiracy theorist Nazis wanted to actually see this miracle technology it suddenly didn't exist anymore. "Sorry the two test installations no longer exist."
Back on topic:
EEVBlog did a video. Not really all that much substance but he did notice their main video supposedly displaying the magical new material is a total fail and suggests they don't even know physics: https://youtu.be/QHPFphlzwdQ?t=487
I'm leaning toward it actually being true. At the very least, if it isnt, it will be exposed fairly swiftly. The material is very cheap and not extremely difficult to make. From what I can tell it has already been replicated by multiple entities so this might be the real deal.
The insane thing is, because of the relative simplicity of making it, this is something that could have feasibly been discovered 100 or 200 years ago by chance.
That all there is to it really. We're waiting for tech for an ad-hoc automated "highway in the sky" system to be tested and approved by regulators. Without that all a "flying car" will get you is basically a helicopter that can't go very far and still requires a pilots license.
It's not harder than or much in common at all with "2D" self-driving cars though. Autopilot with self-landing has been around for decades. I think it's probably much easier than self-driving cars.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s I used to watch a show called beyond 2000. It was about future tech that was coming and they did a show in flying cars. Also on a solar powered car. One episode from the late 80s nailed the smart home
There's a guy who's been attempting to replicate it and livestreaming the process. The issue is that while the formula's relatively simple, the synthesis procedure involves multiple steps which each take 24 hours of heating in a vacuum furnace.
And also it's relatively easy to get the wrong proportion of copper in your final product, it's apparent that one specific ratio of lead/copper is needed to create the effect.
Law of skepticism - when a scientific discovery is made, the "busted" videos will start to be produced within minutes of the announcement. Already happened with LK-99 (by Dave Jones a.k.a. EEVBlog).
Quantum levitation looks different to normal magnetism. Also, this was invented by Koreans, so this whole thing is gonna be really embarrassing to the West and to physics generally if it ends up being true given how simple the discovery is.
If (and that's a big if) you could devise a superconductor that can operate at room temps, and IF it could be made with reasonably affordable materials...
The main impact would be on electric motor and generator efficiency, at least initially.
A typical copper wound AC generator peaks out at about 91.5% efficiency at converting mechanical force to electric power (and often can be as low as 85% under real world conditions). For superconductors, the theoretical peak is around 99.5%.
"That last three percent, it may not sound like a lot, but it is. It's tremendous."
-Gale, Breaking Bad
It's already been mentioned but turbine generator efficiency gains are not to be scoffed at. Boosting global power production by maybe 10% for almost nothing is no joke.
It's relatively quick to achieve rather than the much larger undertaking of replacing power lines. Which might not even be viable, it might be turn out to be a real room temp SC and cheap to produce, but it doesn't mean the rest of its physical properties are conducive to simply replacing cables, there's a good chance it'll be brittle or prone to stress flaws.
Also the timing of potentially having superconducting microchips at around the same time as useful digital AI is a wild combo
I consider myself decently smart, but sadly physics stumps me when I move past kinematics. a lot of people seem excited about this if it's real, so what could a room temperature super conductor be used for?
Well yeah, the I F**CKING LOVE SCIENCE people are often excited about things they neither know nor understand. They're bugmen.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what superconductors are, beyond my possibly incorrect understanding that they allow for the transfer of energy without loss.
For one, electronics could be much more power-efficient with all of the power drawn from the battery reaching tye parts it's supposed to power instead f being lost as heat for instance from resistance. Long-rerm a LOT of energy can be saved replacing power lines, new builds having more efficient wiring etc.
Resistance is a waste/loss of electricity in most instances. Being able to have devices that don't waste power generating unwanted heat means you can have faster/more powerful processors and electric motors, longer battery life, longer component life (heat is bad for electronic components), etc.
In this post-truth society, I'm going to assume it's a fraud.
You'll know when a true and accurate scientific discovery is made when the leftist academics scramble to attribute the work to a woman instead of the men that actually invented it.
I think my favorite piece of gaslighting was that movie where they claimed a bunch of fat black women are who really got us to the moon.
I've actually met the guy who programmed that guidance chip and the trajectory analysis for the moon landing. He told me that there wasn't a black woman within a mile of the physicists at NASA.
"Can confirm, no one ever stole our lunches and our smoke detectors never chirped"
-- Apollo project NASA scientist, probably.
He was one of the junior scientists. He told me he'd have been shocked to see a black woman working there because the senior scientists were all Nazis. Von Braun and all his guys.
They enjoyed rocketing their opinions at others, and then exploding.
We know its true when netflix releases a documentary with a black muslim lesbian woman as the inventor.
These days it has to be a sub-saharan African child.
Like that kid who invented a miraculous energy generator that harvested people's footsteps in sidewalks to power houses. Even got awards from the usual European NGOs and governments. Green energy for free!!1
Except when some racist, far-right extremist conspiracy theorist Nazis wanted to actually see this miracle technology it suddenly didn't exist anymore. "Sorry the two test installations no longer exist."
Back on topic:
EEVBlog did a video. Not really all that much substance but he did notice their main video supposedly displaying the magical new material is a total fail and suggests they don't even know physics: https://youtu.be/QHPFphlzwdQ?t=487
There's a paper trail back to 1999 for this one, the rot wasn't so bad back then and they can't wipe history that quickly.
If it were true they would downplay it and not celebrate it because they can't attribute it to a woman.
Impossible to downplay this one. If it's true, the implications are too massive to keep under wraps. The paper is already out there.
I'm leaning toward it actually being true. At the very least, if it isnt, it will be exposed fairly swiftly. The material is very cheap and not extremely difficult to make. From what I can tell it has already been replicated by multiple entities so this might be the real deal.
The insane thing is, because of the relative simplicity of making it, this is something that could have feasibly been discovered 100 or 200 years ago by chance.
Where is my flying car and heat free computer chip?
I've seen how the general public drive normal cars, there's no fucking way they should have access to the third dimension.
Best we can do is spend thirty five trillion dollars on welfare for blacks.
Flying cars exist. I guess they just aren’t practical now.
We're barely cracking into 2D automatic driving cars, the 3rd Dimension has to be 2 decades out at least.
Because fuck allowing any asshole to have access to flying cars they can control themselves.
That all there is to it really. We're waiting for tech for an ad-hoc automated "highway in the sky" system to be tested and approved by regulators. Without that all a "flying car" will get you is basically a helicopter that can't go very far and still requires a pilots license.
It's not harder than or much in common at all with "2D" self-driving cars though. Autopilot with self-landing has been around for decades. I think it's probably much easier than self-driving cars.
Those of us with enough brain cells to acquire said pilot's license would benefit.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s I used to watch a show called beyond 2000. It was about future tech that was coming and they did a show in flying cars. Also on a solar powered car. One episode from the late 80s nailed the smart home
There's a guy who's been attempting to replicate it and livestreaming the process. The issue is that while the formula's relatively simple, the synthesis procedure involves multiple steps which each take 24 hours of heating in a vacuum furnace.
And also it's relatively easy to get the wrong proportion of copper in your final product, it's apparent that one specific ratio of lead/copper is needed to create the effect.
https://twitter.com/andercot/status/1686286684424691712
But how will this let us send more money to Ukraine?
""""Theorethically"""" with """models"""".
Where have I seen this before...
Do it, then I'll believe it. Oh but you need billions in taxpayers money first right?
Are we sure this guy just doesn't have a theoretical degree in physics?
Welcome aboard
Thanks. I’ll have read this in more detail.
Law of skepticism - when a scientific discovery is made, the "busted" videos will start to be produced within minutes of the announcement. Already happened with LK-99 (by Dave Jones a.k.a. EEVBlog).
Extraordinary claims...
But, the cooper plate with the magic substance on it woobles when you move a magnet next to it!
( Disclaimer : The cooper plate without the magic substance also woobles when you move a magnet next to it. Plz send billions for moar research. )
Quantum levitation looks different to normal magnetism. Also, this was invented by Koreans, so this whole thing is gonna be really embarrassing to the West and to physics generally if it ends up being true given how simple the discovery is.
So how is this going to change modern electric tech if it's proven? You need a supercooled setup right, then what?
If (and that's a big if) you could devise a superconductor that can operate at room temps, and IF it could be made with reasonably affordable materials...
The main impact would be on electric motor and generator efficiency, at least initially.
A typical copper wound AC generator peaks out at about 91.5% efficiency at converting mechanical force to electric power (and often can be as low as 85% under real world conditions). For superconductors, the theoretical peak is around 99.5%.
"That last three percent, it may not sound like a lot, but it is. It's tremendous." -Gale, Breaking Bad
Unfortunately, no.
Apparently this new material is a ceramic and cannot be used in wires.
ObBreakingBad: Also practical EMP. That magnet scene in season 5 would actually be possible.
It superconducts up to +130’C
They have a patent already for CVD - heat free computer chips
MRI magnets without cooling - nuclear fusion and smaller MRIs
It's already been mentioned but turbine generator efficiency gains are not to be scoffed at. Boosting global power production by maybe 10% for almost nothing is no joke.
It's relatively quick to achieve rather than the much larger undertaking of replacing power lines. Which might not even be viable, it might be turn out to be a real room temp SC and cheap to produce, but it doesn't mean the rest of its physical properties are conducive to simply replacing cables, there's a good chance it'll be brittle or prone to stress flaws.
Also the timing of potentially having superconducting microchips at around the same time as useful digital AI is a wild combo
It's a ceramic which makes it unsuitable for wires AFAIK.
You can flip a generator inside out.
If it's superconducting, it generates less heat to begin with. So electronics gets even smaller and more efficient and faster.
I consider myself decently smart, but sadly physics stumps me when I move past kinematics. a lot of people seem excited about this if it's real, so what could a room temperature super conductor be used for?
Well yeah, the I F**CKING LOVE SCIENCE people are often excited about things they neither know nor understand. They're bugmen.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what superconductors are, beyond my possibly incorrect understanding that they allow for the transfer of energy without loss.
For one, electronics could be much more power-efficient with all of the power drawn from the battery reaching tye parts it's supposed to power instead f being lost as heat for instance from resistance. Long-rerm a LOT of energy can be saved replacing power lines, new builds having more efficient wiring etc.
I see, so it's not so much about energy storage or energy generation, but energy transmission?
Resistance is a waste/loss of electricity in most instances. Being able to have devices that don't waste power generating unwanted heat means you can have faster/more powerful processors and electric motors, longer battery life, longer component life (heat is bad for electronic components), etc.