AIUI, viable room temperature superconductors are an existential threat to the coal & gas industries.
Worse / better yet, they'd massively disrupt the existing geopolitical power and wealth distribution.
Worse / better yet, they'd massively disrupt the existing geopolitical power and wealth distribution.
edit: Typo and clarification
Also, Freescale does semiconductors. The patent was about wafer yields. Not superconductors :-)