Some optimism about the claim of a room-temperature superconductor

Last week, South Korean scientists claimed to have developed a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor, called LK-99. It's hard to overstate how important this discovery would be. Just a few of the applications:

• Faster electronics
• Cheaper medical tech
• Improved quantum computing
• Frictionless transportation
• Massively improved energy efficiency
• Massively improved batteries

One can imagine a discovery of this type being a major contributor to solving climate change. — Read the rest