Comment by TeMPOraL
3 months ago
The basic principle still is that you need to shed as heat whatever energy you absorbe from the Sun. Electronics don't create extra heat, they convert electricity into it. So, unless I'm missing something, I'd expect any benefit of superconducting to manifest as less power required per unit of compute, or more compute per fixed energy budget. Power requirements can't go to zero for fundamental reasons (that make parts of CS into branches of physics).
> If I had those resorces at hand, I'd try.
I would too, and maybe they will, eventually. This paper is merely exploring whether there's a point in doing it in the first place.
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