I’m not a materials scientist, can you please explain how room temperature superconductors eventually leads to Mars colonization? Serious question. I hear a lot about how it’ll change society, but it just seems to be “existing tech but slightly better” from what I’ve read.
I am not a material scientist either and my knowledge is extremely limited so here’s a discussion with people far more knowledgeable explaining everything : https://feddit.de/post/2121990
From that thread, one of the techs it may lead to or vastly improve is a Railgun like launch systems, nuclear fusion, and i think i read somewhere that it can help make artificial gravity a thing.
One other thing is that a lot of our cutting edge technology rely on using superconductors that are cooled to extremely cold temps using helium and a room temp superconductors would mean that these cutting edge tech could be available for everyone.
Don’t worry. If the recently discovered superconductors at room temperature lk-99 is real they’ll be visiting mars.
I’m not a materials scientist, can you please explain how room temperature superconductors eventually leads to Mars colonization? Serious question. I hear a lot about how it’ll change society, but it just seems to be “existing tech but slightly better” from what I’ve read.
My take on it is that it does improve existing tech, but by a lot. That makes whole new use cases possible. Consider long-distance power transmission.
I am not a material scientist either and my knowledge is extremely limited so here’s a discussion with people far more knowledgeable explaining everything : https://feddit.de/post/2121990
From that thread, one of the techs it may lead to or vastly improve is a Railgun like launch systems, nuclear fusion, and i think i read somewhere that it can help make artificial gravity a thing.
One other thing is that a lot of our cutting edge technology rely on using superconductors that are cooled to extremely cold temps using helium and a room temp superconductors would mean that these cutting edge tech could be available for everyone.
Thanks! I’ll check out the thread.