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Why room-temperature superconductors matter so much

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If heavily verified, a material that freely conducts unlimited electricity without generating wasted heat would completely shatter our modern technological limitations. It would instantly unlock highly advanced levitating transit networks and entirely flawless, infinite energy grids.

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