The Promise of Room Temperature Superconductors

Monday - August 7 2023, 06:25 UTC - 1 year ago

David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors with implications in fields like transportation, computing, and military applications. If proven correct, these materials could reduce global energy consumption by half. The road ahead will involve proving the exact composition of the material and mastering a process for the replacement of certain lead atoms with dopants.

David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors. Friedberg estimates that 70% of the energy we produce is lost to heat and friction. For example, in data centers and electric motors. This is due to an inherent limitation of materials that conduct electricity, and because of it computer chips and some other electrical devices, such as generators, power plants and car batteries, have to use heat sinks .

While heat sinks help move heat away from the core of the device, they are inefficient as they generate more heat than is necessary for operation.However, with room temperature superconductors, computers and networking abilities could increase 100 to 200 times faster without heat problems. This is due to the fact that superconductors allow electrical current to flow easily, without heat loss, across long distances and allow very efficient transfer of electricity between devices .

Superconductors have been theorized since 1957, but producers of LK99 claim that they have developed and tested a room temperature superconductor in 2020.The first hurdle in confirming that this is real superconducting, and not just diamagnetism, involves proving the exact composition of the material. If the types of extra dopants the theoretical papers suggest are indeed correct, then the reliability and mass production problem is one of mastery of a process for the replacement of every 8th lead atom with copper or gold or some other correct dopant .

With room temperature superconductors, motors, engines, electronics, computers, and space propulsion will all be reinvented. Quantum computers, nuclear fusion and other things on the edge of the possible could become mainstream. At scale this would enable global transformation and abundance.Therefore, now more than ever, there is a great expectation surrounding the development of room temperature superconductors; and the results of LK99 remain to be seen by the scientific community .