LK 99
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Friedberg: Five labs published modeling papers supporting LK-99 superconductivity
“Five different labs have now published papers that show that the way that this material is supposedly produced, it should create these pathways or these energy states with the electrons that theoretically could enable superconductivity at a very high temperatu…”
Friedberg: Simulations show LK-99 requires precise lead-atom replacement to superconduct
“The simulation showed that you have to replace only one of the lead atoms, not any of the other ones, in order for this to work. And that could explain why everyone's having different results in the lab trying to reproduce this.”
Friedberg: Chinese lab observed LK-99 superconductivity at 100 degrees below zero Celsius
“There was a lab yesterday in China that published no resistance, but they had to cool it down to a hundred degrees below freezing, and so it wasn't at room temperature, but it did superconduct, it did have no resistance.”
Friedberg: Confirming LK-99's industrial viability is likely months to years away
“Whether or not this actually does turn into a room temperature superconducting material that can be industrialized and used in all these applications everyone's really excited about, I think it's probably months to years away from knowing.”
Chamath predicts LK-99 is merely diamagnetic, not a superconductor
“My intuition on this is that this is diamagnetic. And I think we're gonna find that, you know, it was, it's like yet another material added to the list of materials, and it's okay.”
Friedberg: No lab has replicated LK-99 zero resistance at room temperature
“No one's yet replicated this at room temperature.”
Friedberg: Chinese lab made 8,000 LK-99 samples to find one working specimen
“There's one in China, and the one in China that measured the zero resistance at negative a hundred degrees, They created 8000 samples, so they found one that worked.”
Morin: LK-99, if verified, rivals the transistor and electricity in impact
“If it's true, it could be on the order of the transistor, you know the discovery of electricity, like these kinds of things, like it's up there in terms of the impact that it could have.”
Sam Lessin: LK-99 superconductor will successfully replicate before 2025
“I'll say yes on one-time replication, and I'll go further to say, like, this is my AI killer scenario, where, like, it's so disruptive if it happens, right, that, like, it's worth putting a lot of effort in trying to figure it out.”
Dave Morin: Lawrence Berkeley supercomputer simulations support LK-99 superconductivity is possible
“There's also a the national lab you know, Lawrence Livermore Berkeley, they did a, they used their supercomputers to simulate I guess they call it a heavy duty compute from the Department of Energy, and they simulated whether this was possible based on the LK-…”