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Re:Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 pr... by red75prime on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:57AM (#36953890)
> computer that runs 1000GW of power through it without heating up

It doesn't work like that. Non-reversible computations necessarily produce heat. The superconducting wires will not heat, but the CPU will.

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Re:Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 pr... by valine on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:23AM (#36955623)
The thermodynamic limits of computation are so far below what we have today it would be a game changer to approach them.
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