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Jay Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Imagine if your electric motors and generators were fairly quickly cheaper, denser, and much more powerful because of this.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Magnetic levitation and frictionless transport would be ubiquitous eventually, right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Massively stronger magnets, far superior energy stored on the grid.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The list goes on and on.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It could be extremely dramatic and people have been waiting and hoping for this.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But of course, I got to bring in some caveats, right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

To be really revolutionary, room temperature itself, just having room temperature S-con cable, you know, S-con cables is not the be all and end all.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

There needs to be other things need to also happen.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It would also need to be cheap.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It would also need to be stable.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

You would also need to have it manufacturable.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

If it's too hard to manufacture, then all of this means nothing, essentially, except maybe in the lab.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It also is going to need to carry very high currents in strong magnetic fields.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

That might not even be possible.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So we don't know.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So there's a lot of things that would need to come into place to make this truly revolutionary, as I hope it could be.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But if we're ever going to get there,

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It's a fundamental breakthrough like this that's gonna do it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So let's see what happens.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

That's all I can say.