Very interesting comment section here... http://www.physorg.com/news182184493.html "Quantum fluctuations are key in superconductors" A guy with a login of Johanfprins makes several statements claiming to have a good model for superconduction and can make them to operate at room temp, or even 100C! Here are some of his comments, and a link to a "It is already well understood; but the so-called "experts" (they should rather be called cranks) on superconduction do not want to understand it since it would mean that "pairing of charge carriers" ARE NOT REQUIRED. In fact ALL superconduction occurs owing to quantum fluctuations as allowed by Heisenberg's uncertainty relationship for energy and time. The underlying mechanism is the same for ALL superconducting materials from metals to ceramics once they have gone through a suitable phase transformation which allows quantum fluctuations to dominate. These conditions lead to a simple quadratic equation which models superconduction as movement of charge-carriers (not necessarily pairs) by means of quantum fluctuations. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO GET THIS MESSAGE THROUGH THE THICK SKULLS OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING "EXPERTS"? "My model predicts what the properties of a material should be to superconduct above room temperature: And I have prototype substrates which do exactly this: I have offered to demonstrate them to Electronic Companies which have the infrastructure to develop devices on them: So far no takers." "The simplest explanation of high temperature superconductivity consist in fact, movable electrons are attracted to hole stripes inside of superconductor lattice in such a way, their repulsive forces are compensating mutually - so that some electrons can move freely in resulting dense electron clouds, surrounding the holes. This behavior corresponds so-called pseudogap state and ballistic transport of electrons, as observed in graphene. At the moment, electron clouds are connected mutually, a superconductivity arises. The intriguing point of this model is in fact, the superconductive phase could be formed well outside of superconductor phase, i.e. near surface of insulator, to which electrons are attracted by electrostatic force. This behavior was revealed just by J.F.Prins experiments: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0268-1242/18/3/319/ Johan F Prins 2003 Semicond. Sci. Technol. 18 S131-S140 "The diamond-vacuum interface: II. Electron extraction from n-type diamond: evidence for superconduction at room temperature" And this comment sounds like what we say about some CF/LENR diehard skeptics: "However, it is NOT my primary concern to convince physicts anymore. They have proved to be too stupid to even understand when Ohm's law applies. The physics community sufferred a frontal lobotomy in Belgium during 1927; and I doubt whether it is possible to activate a single synapse within a modern physicists bony skull: Especially the buffoons and cranks who are doing research on superconduction!
-Mark
