I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity up to the melting point of the polymer.
Here are some pointers to get you started.
Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor [chavaenergy.com]. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.
US Patent 5,777,292 [google.com] - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ...
US Patent 6,804,105 [google.com] - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high ...
US Patent 6,804,105 [google.com] - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high
Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.
The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [nobelprize.org] (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.
US Patent 7,014,795 [google.com] discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.
Again, I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace. Let's get out there and do this awesome thing!
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