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[-] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

What does a room temperature super conductor allow us to do?

[-] Tedrow@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

It would allow us to transfer electricity with virtually no loss of energy.

[-] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What does it mean? More efficiency? No heat generated?

[-] cassetti@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is huge if true.

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

superconductors do nothing to make batteries or CMOS more efficient

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