Superconductor Smackdown: Breakthrough or ‘Probable Fraud’? (#309)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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The Importance of a High Temperature Superconductor
Researchers in Houston and Alabama did an experiment on this Yitrim. It has a superconducting temperature of 93 Kelvin, which is much higher than the temperature of liquid nitrogen. This is less than a year after the Nobel Prize was awarded. And then you could produce commercially this material. But it doesn't have quite as many uses as a pure, you know, elemental wire piece of mercury or copper even,. sorry, copper doesn't superconduct.
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