wiredinUSA January 2012

Room temperature superconductor claims

An inventor, Joe Eck, who runs the superconductors.org website, claims to have found a copper-oxide compound that is not only superconductive, but shows signs of superconductivity at room temperature - the potential “Holy Grail” of science, reports Pure Energy Systems News. Eck’s report states that the signs of a material going into a super conductive state are a sudden drop in resistance all the way to zero ohms, and strong diamagnetism (the Meissner effect) being exhibited at around the same temperature. Eck claims he was able to repeatedly achieve both of these signs of superconductivity using a small amount of the compound (Tl 5 Pb 2 ) Ba 2 Mg 2 Cu 9 O 17 + (a copper oxide with a magnesium atom added). He believes the results were clear and unambiguous.

The material was not cooled to obtain the superconducting effect. Instead of taking place at a very low temperature, it took place at 28.5° Celsius, or 83.3 ° Fahrenheit - an above-room-temperature superconductor, as room temperature is around 73ºF. This technology is not yet ready for commercialization as the “volume fraction” is very low, meaning that only some of the material in the sample being tested is superconducting. It is possible that there are impurities in the tested sample. Eck explains that a method of refinement would have to be developed for this compound to be commercialized.

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wiredInUSA - January 2012