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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by geuis on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:36AM (#36995862)
This is the first time in years where I physically have goosebumps the more this seems to be verified. In a good way.

The potential changes this can introduce is equivalent to when Faraday, Volte, and all the other 17th/18th century scientists started figuring out how electricity works. They had no idea how much it would change every aspect of life in the century to come after them.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by fnands on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:18AM (#36997447)
There is a reason why room temperature (ambient pressure) superconductors have been one of the holy grails of physics for such a long time: the implications are profound.

I used to be a particle physicist, and some of the more complex systems were just those used to cool the superconducting magnets down to cold enough that they become superconducting. If you can do that at ambient temp, you don't have to bother with that entire system.

Also: fusion reactors rely on superconducting magnets (or if you are JET live with the fact that you can only run your magnets for a few seconds before the overheat), so can have a large impact on future fusion reactors.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by jacquesm on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:02AM (#36999376)
There would be some massive deprecation at the CERN and ITER sites.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by regularfry on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:27AM (#37000543)
You've got me wondering how much cheaper ITER actually gets if you don't need the magnets to be cryogenic.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by jacquesm on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:09AM (#37001068)
What I wonder if the cooling requirement drops how much easier it is to get to break-even.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by jamiek88 on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:42PM (#37004076)
What about colliders too?

Imagine large hadron collider without cooling!

We could have the unimaginably huge hadron collider!

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by fennecfoxy on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:44AM (#37031942)
I'm already rooting for CFS' Sparc over ITER anyway. ITER is too big & expensive, if Sparc works it's an indication that we can build fusion "on a budget", too.

Idt CFS will care because they've already sourced much of the HTS tape that they need and their schedule doesn't permit waiting for LK-99 to be proven/disproven and all the years it will take to produce LK-99 in bulk anyway.

It's so insanely cheaper, because not only do you not need the cryogenic cooling (and all the support and maintenance systems and consumables like helium or nitrogen or whatever), but LK-99 is made from relatively common elements versus rare earth elements.

I really, really hope this stuff works.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by dclowd9901 on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:01AM (#37000973)
Completely unrelated, but how does one un-become a particle physicist?
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by metaltyphoon on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:59PM (#37004313)
git reset —-hard
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by lesona on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:23AM (#37009797)
git archive --format=tar HEAD

I like the idea that some of us will live long enough to not be defined by our jobs.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by codethief on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:43AM (#37010765)
You switch fields or leave physics entirely.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by fnands on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:27AM (#37031369)
Well, I don't do particle physics as my day-job anymore, so basically that.