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You'd need breakthroughs in the manufacturing of it (yield, process, scale, etc) and then building the infrastructure and supply chain to support it. Depending on its availability you could see governments hoard the material for "security" and "public interest" use cases, etc. Military first as usual.

If this turns out to be a super conducting material you can be assured that overnight there will be many thousands of people all around the world, from academic, corporate, government, and private labs working with the new theory and materials and discoveries will occur as our understanding of the phenomenon get deeper and wider. There will be so much incentive to find new methods and materials that have the properties of this material.



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