As an example, we took exactly the opposite approach to room temperature superconductivity as has been taken by all the orthodox researchers to date. What exactly is sought, after all, for superconductivity (SC) in a section of an electrical circuit? Well, one has some electrons on one side of that SC section that are transporting excess potential, as given by the Slepian vector J*. [note 14] What is desired is to get some electrons on the other side of the SC section that also are transporting the same amount of excess energy in the form of J*. You can do that in two ways: (1) you can flow the electron carriers through the SC section, carrying their J*, or (2) you can block the J and flow the * itself across as the Poynting flow S. [note 15] Nondivergent Poynting flow flows along an equipotential, which is just another way of saying that, if the S-flow does not diverge, it carries the same potential * along with it. Hence it carries the EMF right along with it as it flows without divergence.

Conventional approaches have all tried to shove the electron carriers through the SC lattice section. Doing that is like trying to fire a very slow bullet through several million rotating fans in a straight line. So cryogenics (to slow the fanblades to a crawl) and massive correlation of the electrons and of the electron-to-lattice interactions is necessary if one is to get the electrons through there without excess collisions that shake off some of the excess * from J*, as scattered photons (heat) or as a change of form of the energy (as in straining the dielectric of a capacitor to convert electrical energy to mechanical strain energy via the piezoelectric effect.)

Our approach is exactly the opposite (Figure 11 and Figure 12). Why not just stop the flow of excited electron carriers on one side of the SC section, and continue the nondiverging flow of the Poynting field energy density S across that section at room temperature? Then the cryogenics is not needed at all. After all, circuits already work that way anyhow __ except standard practice is to nullify the process by letting current be driven around the sourcing current loop and back through the back EMF of the primary source. A quantum well (or several other methods) can be used to trap the "sourcing" electrons in the conductor just prior to entering the SC section. The "receiving" electrons on the other side of the SC section, however, must be in their own dq/dt-isolated current loop.

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