The scientist behind it says to get ready for a 'society where you'll never need things like batteries again.'
, the material is a mixture of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen that was smushed at about 2.5 million times the air pressure of Earth's atmosphere while being blasted with a laser.The superconductor is currently too small to be useful. But if it works at larger scales and under less pressure, it would give us the tools to radically re-imagine our energy and technology infrastructure to be cleaner, more efficient, and more powerful.
"We live in a semiconductor society, and with this kind of technology, you can take society into a superconducting society where you'll never need things like batteries again," coauthor Ashkan Salamat of the University of Nevada Las Vegas
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