{"id":78645,"date":"2018-05-14T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/why-the-discovery-of-room-temperature-superconductors-would-unleash-amazing-technologies"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:10:00","slug":"why-the-discovery-of-room-temperature-superconductors-would-unleash-amazing-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/why-the-discovery-of-room-temperature-superconductors-would-unleash-amazing-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Why the Discovery of Room-Temperature Superconductors Would Unleash Amazing Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-discovery-of-room-temperature-superconductors-would-unleash-amazing-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductors are among the most bizarre and exciting materials yet discovered. Counterintuitive quantum-mechanical effects mean that, below a critical temperature, they have zero electrical resistance. This property alone is more than enough to spark the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>A current that could flow forever without losing any energy means transmission of power with virtually no losses in the cables. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/room-temperature-superconductors\/\">renewable energy sources start to dominate the grid<\/a> and high-voltage transmission across continents becomes important to overcome intermittency, lossless cables will result in substantial savings.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, a superconducting wire carrying a current that never, ever diminishes would act as a perfect <a href=\"https:\/\/science.energy.gov\/np\/highlights\/2013\/np-2013-08-a\/\">store of electrical energy<\/a>. Unlike batteries, which degrade over time, if the resistance is truly zero, you could return to the superconductor in a billion years and find that same old current flowing through it. Energy could be captured and stored indefinitely!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/13\/the-search-for-high-temperature-superconductors\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=60b833bd8a-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-60b833bd8a-58220945#sm.00001y5ov0rk91exjyvd12j65lamu\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/13\/the-search-for-high-te...d12j65lamu<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductors are among the most bizarre and exciting materials yet discovered. Counterintuitive quantum-mechanical effects mean that, below a critical temperature, they have zero electrical resistance. This property alone is more than enough to spark the imagination. A current that could flow forever without losing any energy means transmission of power with virtually no losses in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78724,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78645\/revisions\/78724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}