Must be funnier in German

Thanks AC, aside from power transmission, are there other technologies which this would enable such as quantum computing (taking a shot in the dark here)?

Does this make the proposed superconducting power transmission corridors feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Has anybody proposed a time-to-market for this, or are we still in the infinite loop of '20 years from now'?

138 K is -211 F

According to the omniscient wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Either liquid He or two stage mechanical coolers are used to get the superconducting magnet down to 77 K
They also note that He is in short supply

So, these new materials, which seem to be able to operate at about twice the temperature of current superconductors (thanks AC above for pointing out mistake)

What does than mean in terms of cost, maintainability and overall benefit of keeping something at 138 K as opposed to 77 K?
Does it allow for different techniques?
Does it allow for wider applications?
Does it cost less, and if so by a little or a lot?

So when they talk about high temp semiconductors, it is still around -211F

What does this mean in practical terms?
Is this an easy temperature to maintain?
What techniques or materials could we use to keep that temp?
How does power generation and pulling off waste heat factor into it?

I look at all the heat handlers in a datacenter and wonder, ok what if we step this down a couple hundred degrees

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LETTERS ON AN ELK HUNT
By a Woman Homesteader
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Good point, I just remember seeing something that wasn't metal peeking through the holes in the drywall

Yep, warm winters cause an influx of derelicts to Phoenix hoping to avoid freezing to death elsewhere. A (normally up) construction market and people just loosing steam on the way to California makes for a volatile mix in AZ. Once that summer sets in the 110+F exterior temps result in the overheated people think they are in the wild west and shootings become so standard that they don't even make the evening news

Tomatoe/tomato, you say 'unique legal standards protected by Erie', I say bullshit local custom exploited by trolls

Not claiming that the juries are corrupt, just unsophisticated and willing to believe that some troll claiming to have 'invented' a technique that is disputed by prior art, that any person who has been using the internet for the past 2 decades, would recognized

A friend of mine was trying to 'help out' some down on their luck folks and they said 'thank you' by ripping all of the copper out of her rental house. She replaced it all with PVC and they came back and ripped out the walls again expecting there to be copper in there.

Tweekers have an incredibly high level of motivation and a relatively low level of guilt for the things they are willing to do for money

More than likely tweekers looking to get salvageable metal, they are pretty damned persistent and copper bundles bring a heck of a lot of money as long as the salvage yard is willing to look the other way