• DominicHillsun@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Insane capacity batteries

    Lossless power transmission via wires

    Better magnetically levitating trains

    Much more power efficient computers, electronics

    The list is huge

    • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.one
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      The only drawback is that LK-99 is polycristalline… Levitating trains and computers, electronics, are a stretch as long as the material is not monocristalline.

      It is huge nethertheless.

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      1 year ago

      no i know many of the applications, its huge if true! i understand that, but almost everything like this comes with trade-offs, and i was wondering if there are any here that would make it non-viable for some/all applications

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        The claimed saturation current is very low. If this is inherent and not just a first-try thing it will be less-good than permanent magnets for doing many magnetic-field things and less-good than Aluminum for some current-carrying things.

        It’s a perovskite, in semiconductor applications these have stability and durability problems.

        It might also be a scam. This would make it useless.

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      Power cables are currently (heh) designed to operate below 90degC, because after this you get thermal runaway and the conductor melts. That’s already within the operating range of this.

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        from what i read, it doesn’t seem like you’re able to push much current through it, which makes power cables an unlikely application in its current (heh) form