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Re:Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound by Ygg2 on Saturday December 14, 2024 @07:27AM (#42416636)
I don't think we'll really see a superconductor that ticks all the boxes.

Reality is too noisy for such effects to take hold. If there was I think evolution would have already used it by now.

Re:Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound by philipkglass on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:55PM (#42418748)
Do you mean biological evolution? There are a vast number of useful materials that terrestrial organisms cannot evolve because they're incompatible with the chemical/physical conditions inside living things. Organisms never evolved the use of aluminum structures, for example, even though aluminum has many useful properties and is more terrestrially abundant than carbon.
Re:Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound by Ygg2 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @08:17AM (#42423252)
High temperature superconductor could in principle be inside an organism, because it's not fixed to a specific element. And energy savings would be immense.