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Super interesting thread, I've always heard lots of doom and gloom about this on Hn threads but seems that there's been a pivotal step forward in the field with these new superconductors

Can only imagine what the world would look like with a limitless energy source like this.

Anyone see any reason not to be highly optimistic about this development?

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It all comes down to who controls the tech. Rest assured it won't be set free for the greater good of all.

How do you know this? Why would they proliferate smartphones and internet and antibiotics and vaccines but not free energy?

Not to be cynical, but because people who run things make a lot of money from smartphones, the internet, antibiotics, vaccines, and paid energy.

We could have had free energy a long time ago (Tesla, the guy, not the company) but the wealthy men of that time (also energy guys, BTW), didn't want a free competitor. And still don't.

if wealth ineauality continues, rich people will ensure it gets doled out for enclaves ot fascist governments.

the politicial climate with a source of unlimited energy seems ripe for the wrong type of people.

technology is not an unbiased "good"

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