The fact that this has been replicated is amazing!

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    Maybe, there’s still important questions. Will it scale? Preliminary tests only transfered mA’s before the super conductivity breaks down. So can you layer the material to get higher amps? Will cables have to be made in one continuous part or will the super conductivity work across joined cables

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      The new analysis suggests the material can have two superconducting configurations, but one is significantly better and harder to make pure. It also heavily prefers current flow in one direction.

      If it’s indeed a room temperature superconductor, which I still am a bit skeptical of, the low performance of the first tests could be related to the difficulty in actually getting a perfect crystal

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      This material likely isn’t it but it demonstrates that room temp superconductors exist