Nothing special here... Move on...

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Perhaps this is the birth of a real Warp drive?
 
Improve your car fuel efficiency by replacing your front tires with this. Might be a bit of a challenge when you want to turn. but turning is highly over rated anyway.
 
So if I build a big one of these can I scare thy yokels into thinking its a flying saucer?

Then again I'd likely get shot down...
 
Didn't Japan use this principle in its high-speed rail for decades now?
 
Beowulf said:
Didn't Japan use this principle in its high-speed rail for decades now?
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No that's the Mag Rail or Mag Train, just huge magnets, electro magnets for the track and train -IIRC.

Simular idea - but this seems to be using the cold to get trapped instead of huge amounts of electrisity to create two opposing feilds

This is a superconductor (not charged?) - and magnets... the plate is trapped, not just pushed all over the place- its more stable.
 
FireTiger said:
No that's the Mag Rail or Mag Train, just huge magnets, electro magnets for the track and train -IIRC.

Simular idea - but this seems to be using the cold to get trapped instead of huge amounts of electrisity to create two opposing feilds

This is a superconductor (not charged?) - and magnets... the plate is trapped, not just pushed all over the place- its more stable.
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Thanks for the explanation. It seems that the ideas are rather similar in application, eh? Now, I wonder what kinds of bugs need to be worked out before we see this technology widely used.
 
Beowulf said:
Thanks for the explanation. It seems that the ideas are rather similar in application, eh? Now, I wonder what kinds of bugs need to be worked out before we see this technology widely used.
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Retard proof it so one doesn't douse himself in liquid nitrogen.
 
posts from hell said:
I'm sure the wright brothers were told their ideas were impractical. Disney was told he had no imagination.

So I am curious how have you reached to the conclusion that it is impractical.
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Engineering perspective.

Wright Brothers' original design was impractical. That's why the design was improved later on by other people. This "Quantum Levitation" is nice and novel but impractical. In order to make this works - it needs to be supercooled. That is costly and impractical. and not to mention extremely dangerous too.

Bottom line - Japanese's mag rail is practical and cost-effective. Quantum Levitation works better in magic show, not commercial level.
 
Jiro said:
and the impractical.
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Very impractical, this technology is known as superconductivity.


This kind of technology requires lot of energy and/or consumables, material must be super cold, to keep electric resistance close to zero. It takes lot of energy to keep the material cold constantly.


Most realistic technology i can think of is ion propulsion. Still impractical and very dangerous due to excessive power usage.
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