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S.Korean experts seek to verify room-temperature superconductor claim
(www.reuters.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What does a room temperature super conductor allow us to do?
It would allow us to transfer electricity with virtually no loss of energy.
What does it mean? More efficiency? No heat generated?
Yep. You know how hot your phone gets when charging? Or how hot a playstation gets when gaming for hours at a time?
That's due to heat-loss generated by the circuits. Superconductors would allow them to run much cooler generating essentially zero heat. Which means they can run more efficiently or faster without the need for larger heatsinks or complicated expensive cooling systems.
This is huge if true.
superconductors do nothing to make batteries or CMOS more efficient