[Nilef]

Super interesting thread, I've always heard lots of doom and gloom about this on Hn threads but seems that there's been a pivotal step forward in the field with these new superconductors

Can only imagine what the world would look like with a limitless energy source like this.

Anyone see any reason not to be highly optimistic about this development?

[20after4]

It all comes down to who controls the tech. Rest assured it won't be set free for the greater good of all.

[wait_a_minute]

How do you know this? Why would they proliferate smartphones and internet and antibiotics and vaccines but not free energy?

[dtagames]

Not to be cynical, but because people who run things make a lot of money from smartphones, the internet, antibiotics, vaccines, and paid energy.

We could have had free energy a long time ago (Tesla, the guy, not the company) but the wealthy men of that time (also energy guys, BTW), didn't want a free competitor. And still don't.

[cyanydeez]

if wealth ineauality continues, rich people will ensure it gets doled out for enclaves ot fascist governments.

the politicial climate with a source of unlimited energy seems ripe for the wrong type of people.

technology is not an unbiased "good"