Fidelity9373@artemis.camptoScience@lemmy.ml•LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
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1 year agoNot even a conductor at all, apparently.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06256 this group (mentioned jn the article above) synthesized a fully pure crystal, and found that has a resistance in the several megaohms at room temperature. Just a purple piece of glass, functionally speaking. The thoughts of superconductivity was due to random copper sulfate impurities which DO conduct electricity.
Depends on how they’re inverting the power. If they’re sticking with the DC voltage straight from the panel, that’s probably one thick cable. If each panel or group of panels has an inverter to go to high voltage (AC or DC) to a central location, you can proportionally scale the thickness as voltage increases.