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If this gets peer reviewed and confirmed, what would that mean? What applications would this material have?
what I can think of
No resistance => faster tech, less temp in tech
Hovering things, especially for public transportation
Cheaper mri
Also conserve helium, which would be huge.
Remote power generation becomes much more useful since you can eliminate transmission losses. Things like covering the Sahara with solar panels to sell energy to Europe become possible to think about.
Maglev could become more common and more effective, but a "no-limit" battery comes to mind (no resistance=infinite charge) which could make each city or nation own an endless reservoir of energy. Goes well with renewables.
Those are just 2 ideas. I'm sure there will be a lot more.
EDIT: ignore the "no limit" battery, that's a mistake. I mixed resistance with charge and made a stupid and wrong statement.
How does no resistance lead to infinite charge? I can see it having approximately infinite conductivity sure, but charge? how?
Battery chemist here. That guy has no idea what he's talking about.
Yeah I mixed up resistance with charge, superconductors are probably meaningless for batteries.
Sorry, i confused the lack of energy loss from resistance to "charge", so I'm wrong.
It might be more relevant for semi conductors in order to save energy. Maybe railguns.
that's... not how this works
I see your edit but in case you’re interested - a capacitor is technically a 0 resistance battery for DC.
everything uses copper wire and want to reduce resistance can use superconductor.
Everything. Instant prize too