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The problem, which is often the case with Thunderf00t, is that he is missing the forest for the trees. No one who knows anything was thinking of using LK-99 for serious applications. The specs of LK-99 where just too shit. What it would have been is a start shot for understanding the effect and creating more useful materials based on the same underlying physical process.


Thunderf00t's point, though, is that LK-99 is not novel in its material category. High temperature superconductors that are hard and brittle already existed. What would be interesting would be a malleable high temperature semiconductor, because then you can make it into cables.


There is nothing remotely close to the category of "stp superconductor". This is quite obvious when looking at a plot of critical limits of known superconductors.


a superconductor at 100+ degrees celsius and ambient pressures doesn't exist as of now. anything even approaching that would be earth shattering. Even if they are ceramic.


Sounds like Thunderf00t doomed himself to be wrong no matter what happens to lk-99.




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