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Is this real or fake? Levitation Tech.


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Real, I seen it on tomorrows world in the late 80s. The only difference was the extremely cold superconductor was spinning at quite a high velocity.

 

In saying that, I was young so I'm thinking out loud a little here, I think the spinning was to show the benefits of superconductor levitation due to the fact that it would spin for hours with very little energy loss. They were looking into harnessing it and turning it into a generator or something like that.

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There are Maglev trains that work on the same principle - there's one in Japan. Trouble is things only superconduct at very low temperatures, so it takes a lot of energy to keep them that cold. Haven't seen the quantum effect that keeps it from moving before - normally superconductors repell the magnetic field and float above it. Very cool. I found an explanation for it on their website http://www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html

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That is super cool. There is so much we could do with this stuff.

 

The maglev trains are becoming wide spread. I don't know how much involvement this stuff has with the trains (despite the maglev meaning magnetic levitation) but it shows this stuff really is useful and will be a big part of our future.

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I'm with Scott on this. I watched a video on this when I was at secondary school in the early 90s. My science teachers brother worked for a company developing applications for this and similar technology.

 

Evidently they didn't get very far if they are still peddling the same experiment!!

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