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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by hinkley on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:34PM (#36959391)
This is going to turn into the Iran Contra affair all over again.

Get tired of one set of assholes? Funnel resources to another set of assholes (who also wish you harm).

If this turns out to be actually true then everyone will want to talk about fusion again. I don't know if I have the stomach for it. But as you say, at least it's not AI.

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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by AlanSE on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:01PM (#36959829)
Fusion was already starting to heat up in recent years. The entire SPARC reactor concept is based on (low-temp) superconductor materials breakthroughs.

If these room-temp superconductors pan out, it will be dumping gasoline on the funding fire for new fusion attempts. Given less than a year from scientific verification, fusion will go red hot.

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