If they really did find a room temperature superconductor
Power engineering is one of the more interesting fields of electrical engineering.
This really
is big news as it's something that will have major implications for everyone.
A lot of energy that requires contact, generates heat, etc. would basically be eliminated and would actually be more powerful.
Apparently you can make this right in your garage right now with lead, copper and basic lab equipment.
The paper is basically indicating this is replicable with primitive tech.
That's how crazy this breakthrough would be.
Imagine if people from centuries ago had access to energy generation like we do now. That's the implications here.
Unfortunately let's see how capitalism impacts this. A few thousand people right now are running the world into the ground for the
billions of us. We got the most insane tech around us right now, even before this breakthrough but let selfish little insecure people fukk it up for everyone all the time.
This however, may tank many of those industries because we'll have found they're too inefficient (too much wasted energy). Instead of energy being converted to useless/wasteful heat, that now can go into doing something meaningful.
Not to mention gaming, software, apps, etc. you could make would be
It basically improves every single thing electrical up to this point, which improves efficiently exponentially for things mechanical.
Literally, world hunger cure, planet and animals thankful type-of-level breakthrough.