Recently it was mentioned here (Axil ?) that a new room temp superconductor was claimed by a group at Rochester U.
I lost the post. The material in question is nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride and it demonstrates superconductivity at 21 °C (69.5 °F) at 145,000 psi. The pressure may sound high, but it’s orders of magnitude lower than prior art and achievable in an interesting way that could be synergistic to fusion. lutetium "LENR" is therefore a topic that comes to mind ... somewhat based on a connection to palladium hydride. IOW there could be a connection between the two fields - LENR and HTSC - although it could well be coincidental There appears to be some trickle of prior work on lutetium LENR based on a google search. George Miley was apparently interested in one aspect Does anyone know of ongoing work on the topic LENR using LuH ? It is too bad that Lu is so damned expensive. Apparently it is the most expensive element at many suppliers
