Scotch tape to polywell rescue?
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paperburn1
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Re: Scotch tape to polywell rescue?
scotch tape also allows you to look through frosted glass if placed on the frosted side...Superpower!!!
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happyjack27
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...and you can cancel that order for liquid nitrogen. you won't be needing it anymore.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/42 ... -found-in/
just curious if this maintains its superconductivity under high mechanical stress. and if not, if it could be altered some way so that it would.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/42 ... -found-in/
just curious if this maintains its superconductivity under high mechanical stress. and if not, if it could be altered some way so that it would.
These guys hypothesise that the water dopes the graphite surface with hydrogen and this plays some role in linking the grains together. This, they say, explains the superconductivity and why pressing grain breaks the bonds between them. [...] it's hard to imagine that superconducting grains will be of much use in the long term so physicists will want to find a way of reproducing the effect in a bulk material--along a wire, for example.
So there's plenty of work ahead. [...] the implications and rewards are potentially huge, which adds a modicum of extra incentive.
Esquinazi and co are clearly aware of this. They finish their paper like this: "The overall results indicate that room temperature superconductivity appears to be reachable and that the here used or similar methods may pave the way for a new generation of superconducting devices with unexpected benefits for society."
You can do anything you want with laws except make Americans obey them. | What I want to do is to look up S. . . . I call him the Schadenfreudean Man.