Tested and proven successful, Room Temperature Super Conductors are now a contender for future participation in many commercial products. Imagine your watch and phone that never needs a new battery, your lap top that you never need to plug in. These Supper Conductor developers envision a charged mass of the material that will store energy, discharge as needed and outlast the commercial or military usefulness of the unit. While everyday people will eventually use such energy storage devices in their personal products, the ability of the material to be scaled to many different sizes provides an opportunity to be exposed to a Room Temperature Super Conductor through its use in micro technologies; think little robots used in medical and technical services or perhaps micro-military applications. Once perfected, we could see these Supper Conductors in wires reducing the stresses of overhead power lines or increasing the speed of micro processors. The US Military has tested these potential products and their use in specific applications. As in the past, military research and applications provide breakthroughs that support development and growth in space technologies, internet and our everyday lives. Looking for applications of this emerging technology is not hard, but there seems to be commercial application hurtles that every emerging technology must overcome. Room Temperature Super Conductors is no exception. Challenges remain in scaling to size, not necessarily in micro-applications, but imagine wires hundreds of miles long. The technology has tested to transmit energy faster than gold which will accomplish one of two things, increasing speed or reducing size needed to accomplish the same task. Development costs and commercial development remain challenges for many emerging technologies, however for the Room Temperature Super Conductors; they are poised to be in our future lives, perhaps very soon.
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