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anthonyqkiernan
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Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 20, 2008, 15:56
nextenergynews.com wrote:
A new breakthrough superconducting material fabricated by a Canadian-German team has been made out of a silicon-hydrogen compound and does not require cooling. The implications of the discovery are enormous and could transform the way people live by cutting power usage from everything from refrigeration to cell phones.
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handofdave
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Re: Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 20, 2008, 16:37
Excellent.
Hopefully there won't be any prohibitively high barriers in scaling the process up to commercial production.

I'm hoping we're going to start seeing the energy revolution really take off in the next decade. It's overdue by a decade, to my mind.
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 23, 2008, 13:57
If such a breakthrough has occurred then why hasn't it appeared on Headlines throughout the world?

(a) Ignorance of science issues

(b) Its not a breakthrough
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handofdave
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Re: Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 23, 2008, 14:01
Remember "Cold Fusion"?

After that hype proved to be, well, hype... researchers are more careful to alert the press only when their results can be readily confirmed.
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Deepinder Cheema
Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 23, 2008, 16:04
Not so, the scientific community are veritable rottweilers to sniffing out the truth.

The pressure of ridicule is immense
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Moon Cat
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Re: Superconducting at room temerature?
Mar 26, 2008, 16:57
handofdave wrote:
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I'm hoping we're going to start seeing the energy revolution really take off in the next decade. It's overdue by a decade, to my mind.




Call me cynical but I have a certain amount of 'faith' in the power of greed. Whenever someone figures out how to make the maximum amount of money (possibly from minimal investment) out of alternative energy sources then politicians will seriously buy into it and maybe we'll have a viable future.
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