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Sapphire Fibers Are Actually More Effective Than Plain Copper Wire
According to the law of indefinite perfectibility, copper wire will
someday have to go. For good reasons as well, since experiments in
sapphire fibers have produced startling results. ‘Experiments’ because
you won’t have lengths of sapphire cable running through your house
anytime soon. How did they do it, anyway? Ah, those Israelis, you never
know what they’re going to come up with next.
Indeed, it was a team of scientists
over at Tel Aviv University who finally perfected sapphire
superconductors. The above is just a tangle of copper, which will have
to do since few images of the sapphire-based conductive material exist.
Also, it’s beautiful to look at.
The single-crystal sapphire fiber coated in ceramic and achieved a
once impossible feat. This is to transmit 40 times more electricity than
plain copper. Though sapphire won’t be shaking up the energy industry
any time soon, it’s a great step in the right direction. It does make
charging a Volt at home that much quicker as well.