Another write up on last week’s news on the Hydrogen metal discovery. Definitely impacting many industries tech, auto, construction/ building materials, etc.
It’s been over 80 years since the idea of metallic hydrogen was first theorized.
It’s not that changing hydrogen into a different state isn’t possible, because it is – by cooling it to −253 degrees Celsius, it can be turned into liquid. The challenge, however, lies in changing hydrogen into a solid metallic state because of the extreme pressure required to do it.
Hypothetically, metallic hydrogen can revolutionize industries like electronics, magnetics and transportation; help reduce the world’s energy problems; and usher in a brand new age of interstellar exploration. Because it can be used as a superconductor at room temperature, it could make electricity distribution more efficient – no more wasted energy caused by resistance in power lines. And since metallic hydrogen is created under extreme pressure, once it is converted back to its original state, all that pressure will be released, making it the most powerful propellant ever produced, one that can make space travel that much faster.
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