Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "Superconducting Cables are Coming. I’m Not Joking" video.

  1. Back in 2000s when I studied chemistry, one of our faculty's departments had a Bruker NMR spectrometer that used both liquid nitrogen and liquid helium for cooling its superconducting magnet. It was a beast that had stairs and a catwalk to access the specimen insertion area. I wonder how the future developments in superconductors will affect scientific gear like this.
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  2.  @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88  oh yeah, miniaturization of equipment is definitely the way - given how massive the electronics alone used to be in the '60s or even '80s, compared to modern instruments. Computers used to fill entire rooms and eat hefty hundreds of kilowatts of power. Now you get more processing power from a handheld device. Even a modern digital sampling oscilloscope is teeny tiny compared to the old analog scopes from decades ago that had long cathode ray tubes, let alone the even older ones built entirely with vacuum tubes. Modern electronics packs tons of functionality in cubic centimeters of space. Other parts of scientific gear will have to follow - and they often do, with micro-fluidics and the like, that allow for testing extremely small samples.
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