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Technology is my dump stat, what does this mean?
There are tons of useful applications for superconductors that are impractical to do currently. Some examples, include cheap magnetic levitation, fusion containment, computing, power transmission, etc. Finding a superconductor that works at roughly room temperature and ambient pressure has been the holy grail in material science for a little while now. Basically, it would be a huge breakthrough that could allow a lot of new tech we can't currently make.
Oh, well then fuck yeah, I'm happy now
nothing, ceramic super conductors that operate at "high" temperature have been known about for decades this one has a particularly "high" temperature but its not significantly higher such that it would make a difference. people care about super conductors because they are conductors aka they wanna make cables out of them and u cant make a cable out of ceramic, and this is a ceramic material. i mean its so brittle they couldnt even make a full puck of it for their big headline picture.