Stinky hydrogen sulfide smashes superconductivity record

Here is something that could someday make major changes to society.

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When solidified, the compound [hydrogen sulfide] conducts electricity without resistance at 203.5 K. That's still cold—about 70°C below the freezing point of water. But it’s far higher than anything ever achieved before and a big step closer to the lofty goal of achieving superconductivity at room temperature. The team's preliminary claim was circulating for more than a year, but new data clinch the case, says Michael Norman, a theorist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. “It's the real deal.”

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Questions (in no order):
1. Why is this not front page news everywhere?
2. Implications / practical uses for this?
3. How long before we can buy or use something that uses this technology?
4. How real is this? In other words what are the chances that the claims are false?

Here is a reference for practical applications for superconductors.
http://ift.tt/1JpF9Q3 . If what it says is true then in 10 - 20 years society would be a lot different from now due to this technology and what comes out of it. This is why I ask why is this not front page news.


Wikipedia on High-temperature superconductivity^WP. May need updating as the only reference to hydrogen sulfide has recently been deleted.

Edit. Nitrogen boils at -210 so that could be used to cool this. Or even other elements. So no need to use expensive helium.

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