• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If they’d said I’d was insanely expensive, or time consuming, out used really specific isotopes of the elements they’re using, I’d be much much more inclined to believe them.

    The specificity that room temperature conductivity they’re claiming to have achieved (an entirely new variety of super conductivity) by having certain atoms in certain orientation to allow for quantum tunneling, doesn’t just come out of an oven after a few days of cook time, the atoms would need to be aligned, and all of the same isotope, at the masses they supposedly demonstrated the odds of it all occurring are beyond atomically small.

    They wrote what was a guarantee to capture the attention of the media, cheap, extremely efficient, and very safe/easy to produce. When/if room temperature super conductivity comes it isn’t fitting into all 3 of those things.