Claims of Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor (Updating List)

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2 points·wibbily··2 comments

It's interesting to see how rapidly everyone is pouncing on this. The fact that all the chemical elements are things you can find at home, in a car battery, some wire, and a bottle of Coca Cola, with nothing exotic, might be helping.

* The material is not so weird for a superconductor. It's similar to other ceramic superconductors with a change of some elements. So it's not a proof that it's real, and it's surprising that this works so well (if real), but not incredible weird.

* The construction method is "easy" for someone that is working in the area. (I think this method uses a dry mix of powders instead of a wet mix of materials.) I don't have a laboratory, but I know a profesor in the university that has one. I didn't spoke to him, but I would be annoyed if he didn't expend all the weekend locked in the lab with his graduate students trying this.

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For comparison, yesterday someone posted a patent about a superconductor made of graphene with tiny holes wrapped around something and wet with some oil like material. I have no idea if someone has measured superconductor graphene in real life, and I have no idea how to make all the tiny holes, so IMHU it's much more difficult to build.

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