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Superconductor are more efficient at transmitting energy, here are some consequences:

- Cheaper electricity transportation

- New kind of batteries

- Consumer devices that don't heat up as you use them

- Simplifies the design of fusion reactors, which means we could have fusion sooner and cheaper

- Probably lots of things we can't even think of

If this is true, then you still have a lot of time before you can do industrial replication but given the stakes I imagine we will see immense inflows of capital into this.



Thank you for listing the consequences of LK99 / having superconductors available at room temperature.


> - Consumer devices that don't heat up as you use them

And now I’m imagining a superconducting toaster. Such frustration!




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