Breaking news: paper in Nature covering a candidate room temperature superconductor ... not an especially practical one, given the conditions it needs to operate, but this is the first time superconductivity has been reported for a substance at 15°C.

Calilasseia wrote:...not an especially practical one, given the conditions it needs to operate....

If I've got my powers of ten right, 270 gigapascals is a pressure of 2.7 million atmospheres

So we can have lossless power grids, but we just have to build them in the earth's core. Sweet!

Cold Fusion for the new generation. Sure its viable until you read the small print. They'll take the money to invest in the miracle technology, yesterday. That much is certain.

TopCat wrote:

Calilasseia wrote:...not an especially practical one, given the conditions it needs to operate....

If I've got my powers of ten right, 270 gigapascals is a pressure of 2.7 million atmospheres

Does such a place exist? Pressures like that, sure. But, at room temperature?