Frontiers of the future: Living in a materials world

Reported by IndiaTimes on Saturday, 7 November 2009 (on November 7, 2009)

Normal conductors, like copper wires, lose about 30 per cent of energy in transmission. But the problem with known superconductors is that they function only at very low temperatures, in the range of -240 degrees Celsius.

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