@foone something something siberian labs

@foone it would be hilarious if "room temperature" superconductors was the headline, but this was the detail 😂

@foone I'm personally in favor of this. Imagine how many sweaters I could wear!

@foone The trick is to build that DC on Pluto/Neptune/Uranus.

(An ancient still running crypto miner might explain why Neptune is warmer than Uranus.)

@foone yes! Cooling the room is relatively inexpensive, compared to resistivity losses. There are companies specializing in this.

I'm not cool enough to live in hts cable envelope, sadly :/

@foone wil be easier on Mars when SpaceX gets there in 2070. :)

@foone ...Yes!
"We find it notable that seekers of room-temperature superconductors spend all their time optimising the operating temperature of their materials, and ignore the temperature of the room that they put them in. For example, our laboratories in eastern Siberia rarely reach temperatures above -60c, and as such a room-temperature superconductor is more viable here than anywhere else in the world."

@foone That sounds nice.

@foone Well I know the folks running the frozen food section of my local supermarket have.

@foone my A/C bill is bad enough already holy smokes.

@foone That's my preferred temperature anyway

@foone help, our NMR text keep freezing solid on the way to the instrument

@foone@digipres.club Yes.

yes but "room temperature" probably means that the room is habitable but humans don't function very well when they are frozen