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Japan introduces magnetic levitation for cars: the end of all engines and batteries
EcoNews ^ | 31/7/24 | D. Garcia

Posted on 08/08/2024 6:06:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Rolls-Royce breaks all luxury limits and unveils new engine: the end of hydrogen with something better The first biomass engine in history beats hydrogen: It’s submersible, and no one understands how it works This engine was a prediction a century ago, and it runs on steam: It’s the end of EVs and FCEVs Nowadays, cars use batteries and motors to move, however, this way of movement is very inefficient because overcoming friction and gravity takes most of the energy. But Japan presents a very innovative solution which is magnetic levitation and will be the (supposed) end of hydrogen engines.

Will the use of magnetic levitation do away with the need for batteries and motors? A group of Japanese researchers attached to the Quantum Machine Unit of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) report having created a track that provides magnetic levitation, which does not need external maintenance power.

By the latter, we mean that it does need power, but only at start-up for the generation of the magnetic field it initially requires. After that, objects, including cars, will operate by moving on it without using any other type of thrust energy such as batteries or motors.

What does this revolutionary invention consist of? On a surface, magnetic levitation causes objects, cars in our case, to rise a few centimeters above this track. This eliminates friction, so the car is able to move without the need for batteries, motors or any form of mechanical or electrical thrust.

To achieve this effect, the car is required to be made of diamagnetic materials, then magnets along the tracks provide an intense magnetic field that causes the object to “float” on the surface. And it is to generate this magnetic field that the initial energy is needed.

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(Excerpt) Read more at ecoticias.com ...


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OK. You need tracks, though.
1 posted on 08/08/2024 6:06:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Nah. Magic is good too.


2 posted on 08/08/2024 6:11:30 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yes, that’s not a car, then, it’s a train. A very small train, but still, a train.


3 posted on 08/08/2024 6:11:35 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Eleutheria5

And how are all the computer modules on vehicles these days going to handle the EMF’s?


4 posted on 08/08/2024 6:12:06 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“OK. You need tracks, though.”

Some way to aim it would help...


5 posted on 08/08/2024 6:12:20 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Eleutheria5

I was thinking “sails” when trying to fill in the logical blanks.


6 posted on 08/08/2024 6:13:16 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Eleutheria5

This is really the best long term solution for trains and automobiles. Yes, you have to make tracks, but once you put a few of them in, their production will take off.


7 posted on 08/08/2024 6:13:32 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Eleutheria5
After that, objects, including cars, will operate by moving on it without using any other type of thrust energy such as batteries or motors.

Just because a car floats above a magnet doesn't mean it's going to move, unless the track is sloping downhill.

8 posted on 08/08/2024 6:13:37 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Boogieman
a very small train


9 posted on 08/08/2024 6:14:23 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Yo-Yo

repulsion happens.


10 posted on 08/08/2024 6:14:55 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Yo-Yo; All

For small cars and motorcycles, the most significant “friction” at speeds about 60 mph, is wind resistance.


11 posted on 08/08/2024 6:15:51 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Eleutheria5

OK, I just read the excerpt, but it seems that it would need power to go up hills and counteract wind resistance. Unless they are talking about being in the vacuum of space, of course.


12 posted on 08/08/2024 6:16:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: LastDayz
EMF's

Do you mean EMP's?

EMF

13 posted on 08/08/2024 6:17:22 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: nikos1121

It makes me think of the transportation methods in the movie, “Minority Report”. They had those relatively small people movers in the city, but he still had to drive a “normal” car out in the country. I live in rural Kentucky. The road in front of my house gets roughly one car per every hour or two. I don’t think this solution will work there.


14 posted on 08/08/2024 6:18:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hmmmm. I guess I’m not clear on how such a car would suddenly (or not) stop while all its momentum is “floating” on air.


15 posted on 08/08/2024 6:19:25 AM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: Eleutheria5

This “science” is a cult. It’s as though electricity is magic to these people.

I can easily imagine someone living in animal skins in a cave having a similar reaction.


16 posted on 08/08/2024 6:20:25 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Eleutheria5

Just paint a “metal” stripe. Equip with collision avoidence and gps.


17 posted on 08/08/2024 6:22:54 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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To: ALASKA

That is a simple one. You open your car door, put your leg out first, then your shoe on the ground, and apply pressure until the car stops. I saw Fred Flintstone use this procedure.


18 posted on 08/08/2024 6:23:41 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: xoxox
repulsion happens.

LOL! You stole my thunder. I was about to say this idea is utterly repulsive.

19 posted on 08/08/2024 6:25:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Yo-Yo
Just because a car floats above a magnet doesn't mean it's going to move, unless the track is sloping downhill.

Once it's floating, it's jus a matter pf blowing air in the opposite direction of where you want to go. ') You blow south, you go north. Carry a lot of pepper with you to help you sneeze and get propulsion. ;)

But, magnetic levitation can also be used to send you in the direction you want to go. On tracks,it's either one way or the other. So, magnets below for levitation, and magnets in the front or back for movements in different directions.

Question is, how do you park your magnetic levitation vehicle in your driveway or garage? Tracks there too?
20 posted on 08/08/2024 6:27:14 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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