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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While a lot of the time the applications of a technology precede it's discovery, it's certainly not ultra rare for the discovery to prompt the applications, because nobody ever gave much thought to 'what can we do with X'.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hah yeah that reminds me of the IBM CEO in 1943 saying "there's a world demand for maybe 5 computers" because he couldn't fathom what could be done with them. it was a pretty great article overall, discussing how the same was true for solar ... nobody could imagine it powering the world just 20 years ago.

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth