• Vupperware@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is huge, is it not? No loss in potential energy means that I could have an infinitely floating coffee cup without the use of power, no?

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      1 year ago

      It is absolutely huge

      It means that you can make supercapacitors which have larger energy storage density than our current batteries by who knows how many times

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      If it were real maybe. But having read the paper, I am very skeptical that it is.