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To: upchuck
These scientific types are such dummies. Why not build it in IL instead of NY? Hello?

You read my mind.

These egghead physicists are supposedly the biggest brainiacs on the planet, yet they couldn't figure out that it would be a lot simpler to ship the darn thing in pieces, then put it together at the end of the line.

Sheeesh....

38 posted on 05/09/2013 9:47:32 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier; upchuck

Another site claims it : **Can’t be done. Magnets like this cannot be disassembled, for many many reasons. First and foremost, you cannot splice the conductor that makes up the coil, as it simply will not work after you do that. Even unwinding the cable that makes up the coils isn’t possible as it would damage the conductor. Superconductors are something else entirely in how you have to treat them, and how fragile they are.**


42 posted on 05/09/2013 9:51:24 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Windflier

If you read the article, it mentions the point about the magnet costing10 times more to build / assemble on-site.


59 posted on 05/10/2013 4:48:59 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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