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by Ygg2 551 days ago
I don't think we'll really see a superconductor that ticks all the boxes.

Reality is too noisy for such effects to take hold. If there was I think evolution would have already used it by now.

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Do you mean biological evolution? There are a vast number of useful materials that terrestrial organisms cannot evolve because they're incompatible with the chemical/physical conditions inside living things. Organisms never evolved the use of aluminum structures, for example, even though aluminum has many useful properties and is more terrestrially abundant than carbon.
High temperature superconductor could in principle be inside an organism, because it's not fixed to a specific element. And energy savings would be immense.