Check Out This Magnet and Liquid Nitrogen Powered Hoverboard
- Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:47pm by
Liz Klimas
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Liquid nitrogen. Magnetic superconductor. Quantum locking. While these may seem like scary words, all together they equate to one heck of a skateboard — or should we say hoverboard.
Watch it coast in a stream of steam:
Smart Planet reports the hovercraft, known as MagSurf, as being created by a team of researchers in Universite Paris Diderot in France. To develop the hovercraft, researchers used a technique called quantum locking. Here’s essentially how it works, according to Smart Planet:
Essentially, they turned a skateboard into a one big magnetic superconductor by icing it with super-cold liquid nitrogen. What this does is it creates an electromagnetic field that’s expelled from the inside, a phenomenon known as the Meissner effect. But since the MagSurf is much larger than the ultra-thin disc used in the previous demonstration, it can’t do quantum locking. Nope. Not today. Not tomorrow. And, unfortunately, not any time soon. That’s why you see the volunteers stretching their arms to balance themselves as they glide across the magnetic track.
Care to learn more about quantum locking and levitation? Check out this video explaining the technology by Quantum Levitation, the superconductivity group at Tel Aviv University:
[H/T Popular Science]
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Comments (56)
sundance_sp
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:53pmSorry folks. This is a non-event. They are using the same technology wev’e seen over the last 30 years. Nothing new. I do remember when I was in college this technology was only in theory (ok, so I exposed my age,, ha, ha). But, yes, it still has potential, actually, a great deal of potential. But, there needs to be a radical new approach to this that could make it a possible source to make our lives better. And that approach I believe lays in the research of quantum mechanics. Keep a close eye on CERN. There is much more than simply this science going on there,,, It could be that CERN will help unlock the secrets to all of our energy problems. But, that’s just my opinion. For what it’s worth….
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 10:15amAnd, if the socialist, marxist, yada, yeada, yada, had their way, there would be no University of Tel Aviv.
Report Post »desertdogtom
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:30pmTo me when I first saw this on TV years ago it was a quantum leap in my mind, and still is. I think we have seen Franklin discover electricity in our age. 100 yrs from now this could be significant.
Report Post »VikingExplorer
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:39amDesertDog, actually superconductivity was discovered about a 100 years ago. In a century, it hasn’t transformed society. I learned about the Meissner effect the early 80s, in my EE program. While it makes a cool youtube video, it’s not new. It’s unlikely to ever lead to levitating trains. One reason is the magnets that you may have noticed as the “track”.
They are just permanent magnets, with the strength that you’d expect. It’s good for keeping paper on a fridge. Would you expect it to be able to pick up a car? Of course not, so in any real life levitating train design, the magnets are replaced by coils. Electromagnetism works the same as permanent magnets, except that we control the magnetic field strength. The need for coils with electric current flowing through them means that we’re expending a large amount of energy to keep the train in mid air. What do we save by doing that? Friction. But wait, airplanes fly through mid-air. So, a mag train can only reduce friction to the same level as airplanes, not any better. Actually, air friction is less at 30k feet.
Conclusion: mag lev trains will never be better than planes, because with an airplane, you don’t have to spend all sorts of money building a track and powering it. Also, the flexibility of flying in any direction you want makes it inherently superior.
Btw, Franklin didn’t discover electricity, he merely confirmed that lightning was the same as static electricity.
Report Post »dpselfe
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:12pmBut….if a maglev train loses power, it only falls a few inches, and then drags to a stop. An airplane, however, at it’s cruising altitude (15K – 40K feet) tends to make a nice big crater when it hits the ground, and not many people walk away. More efficient? Absolutely. Safer? Depends on the lowest bidder for the engine parts I suppose.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:07pmYeah, but at 361 MPH will the friction melt off the bottom of the train, or will it find greater friction in the joints of the track and cause the train to crumble?
Report Post »PylesTheBeaver
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:49pmAll I need now is a Flux capacitor and I’m good to go!
Report Post »Muddbog
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:54amI’ll sell you mine…
Report Post »wrbrown
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:57pm“Everybody knows that Hoverboards don’t work on water!” LOL
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:29pmthat was seriously the perfect comment!
Report Post »4blackhorses
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 6:25pmTrue, but waterboards work on insurgents…. oh, never mind…
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:26am@4blackponies roflmao
Report Post »Muddbog
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:55amLol
Report Post »wouldubelieveit
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:27pmYou Guys are smart than me. But the big question is what is holding you back.Go get it
Report Post »George Washington Carver did. Think out side the box and have a good time
ONTIME1
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:26pmThe need to produce massive amounts of cheap energy in unlimited supply has become the quest to advance our technology, we have simply got to concentrate the effort for us to move on to higher quantums of mechanics and travel the vast distances we seek or make tools that will help us create new frontiers and improve greatly our conditions in the future….as our tools improve so will our abilities.
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:19pmI notice that these vids are from Israel, like THEY discovered it or something. Well, NO. Look at this from THREE YEARS AGO in Japan.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDpPAlrehc&feature=related
I have not researched all this, but why the Israel focus on this? Not getting it.
asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:31amI thought he 1rst vid was done in France could be wrong, anyway I don‘t care who is doing the vid’s it is the possibilities of the concept that is the point. I would not give a hoot who discovers anything as long as it advances everyone, just like the light bulb once it is there you cannot stop it AND more to the point I really don’t care who makes a fortune out of remember who is on first!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:08amASYBOT12……duh, cause they made the video, maybe? A little bit sensitive about jewish accomplishment, aren’t you….bro?
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:10amoops sorry about that asybot 12 the previous comment was meant for SYMPHONIC
Report Post »TheSitRep
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:11pmYay! And it only took 5000 gigawatt.
Report Post »It’ s like free energy. Our problems are solved.
Diego Roswell
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:01pmSuperconductors are nonsense as practical devices because the amount of energy required to keep the superconductor at the low temperature far exceeds the amount of “work” you can get back. It is like the madmen searching for perpetual motion. Perhaps in a few thousand years, a device that could harness the cold form space and the magnetic fields form large planetary bodies could produce a “space ship” of some sort. On planet earth this type of thing won’t work because it is just too warm.
Report Post »adrefs
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:58pmHow true. And if man were meant to fly he’d have wings, right?
Report Post »ONTIME1
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:18pmThis type of application would be a snap if we we ever master the elusive energy produced by fusion in unlimited quanity….
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:31amNeat, I saw a smaller version on YouTube a few weeks ago
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:20pmThis has been done by other countries too, years ago. It apparently is NOT new.
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:26amProblem with developing new technology and especially gadgets is that 6 months after you put them on the market China starts making them at 1/2 the price. Not saying we should stop making stuff but the incentives and return on R+D is actually risky. This has got to stop.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:08amId like to see the device used to create an induction field and generate power.
Report Post »Friction would generate heat quickly and drain the S.C.So I would be impractical outside a vacuum cool never the less.
V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:23amYou want to create power? You’re talking to the right man!
Induction power? Well, you just take a large copper coil, energize it with a small current, and watch the magnetic field expand exponentially larger than the current input alone would produce!
Where is all this extra magnetic field coming from, huh?
Well, that’s the field produced by the atoms of the copper that are aligned by the small input of current! What happens when you turn off a current source?
You get a BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE (flyback) that is the reverse of the input current’s polarity- with exponentially larger voltage!
Well, you just latch that flyback onto a bridge rectifier and feed that HUGE amount of electricity BACK into the coil!
Now, what happens when you put a large permanent magnet inside that large solenoid and rotate the magnet or solenoid? You get induction!
The induction generated from the manual rotation of the coil or magnet would be more than enough for the initial input current to start the self-running generator. you could veen use a solar panel or a simple push button to discharge a capacitor to start the generator turning…and it wouldn’t stop unless you extract too much energy from the system too fast, even then it would only momentarily slow down, then resume acceleration.
This is how you get more gallons of water out of the system than the one gallon you put in. You get extra gallons from activating the atoms of the copper.
Report Post »Hanniusms
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:24pmV-Man what is your thoughts about m-state (ORMEs) and zero point?? You seem pretty up on your physics?
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:35amWOW !!!, you get something for nothing?? are you on Wall Street??
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:46am@v, are you living on Wall Street with the rest of them that want everything for nothing. Even if your “theory” works how much energy would it take to create the copper, the coil the “minimal current hoover dam energy” Can you tell me how much energy it takes to make even 1 minimal AAA battery to create that current please? Answer but just think before you do. There are no freebies anywhere as you will soon find out the way you ask for everything and contribute NOTHING (oh and how is the Ipad working for you !).
Report Post »Striker
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:34amNow this is type of technology you could invest in. Solar panels….they have been working on these things for decades and have still not made them practical. I would be interest in finding out if this was privately funded.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:56amSo now we know how they built the pyramids!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:01am“Quantum flux tubes” are nothing more than virtual photons moving and spinning at the speed of light.
Virtual photons (imaginary light) is what makes up the magnetic field.
Reality is imaginary. This is a hologram of interfering virtual photons.
Report Post »Ford
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:33amExcellent! Now I am one step closer to owning the hoverboard from Back to the Future II !!! Yay!
Report Post »Arizona 9-12
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:05amIsreal as always, a blessing to man.
Way to go, this is the technology of the future, not solar panels or wind turbines! Anyone want to bet that these students, and researchers wont get US government grants like tesla and solyndra?
I dont believe in US tax dollars going to ANY company, for ANY reason, but any honest observer knows those companies did’nt recieve their grants on merit.
Sorry as Glenn likes to say; “A.D.D. moment.”
Kudos! Your work is monumental!
And May Our Lord protect and continue to bless you.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:57am“Quantum locking” is a fancy way of saying “magnetic gearing” due to “gyroscopic virtual photons” which comprise the magnetic component of the electromagnetic field. This is levitation due to the Meissner effect, which expels all internal magnetic field lines (it repels virtual photons due to the highly-aligned crystal structure of the material).
You see, virtual photons (imaginary light) are what facilitate the magnetic field. The exchange of these virtual photons and the interactions of the “imaginary light” is what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”.
Virtual photon flux of the magnetic field of the permanent magnet is suspending the supercooled superconductor because the particles of the supercooled superconductor are highly aligned by the temperature (cold aligns or creates order, hot unaligns or creates chaos). The permanent magnet’s field is not static, the virtual photons are moving so fast (at the speed of light c) and spinning so fast (at the speed of light c) that it appears to be a static field with locked “flux” lines ( c x c = c^2).
Quantum mechanics is simply this: the KINETIC exchange of quantums of energy by MECHANICAL means- the mechanical interaction of virtual photons that spin at c and move at c. The permanent magnet is interacting with the virtual photons expelled by the SC-SC which rotate at the thermal boundary.
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:16pmOK a science person I am not, so what practical purpose will this serve? Will it power a automobile or power a household? How cost effective is this? Not being sarcastic just curious.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:49amAs far as I remember Tesla died probably long before government grants you should really do some research before you open your ???
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:55pmV-MAN MACE. you just gave me a headache.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:59amAnother score for humanity thanks to Israel….gee, who does the globe need more of? Israel or blood thirsty, Islam worshiping, terroristic, taquiyya practicing, animal-like Muslims? Dohhhhhhhhh.
Report Post »Mattyboy
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:53amSo, we should cut off funding to Isreal? They are at least using the money for good. Are you sure that we don’t want them for allies? Let’s think this through.
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:44amIt’s impossible for us to truly aide other countries until we fix ourselves.
Report Post »Kasey
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:49amoh, good. They removed it.
On topic. They have a problem losing superconductivity due to warming. I wonder if they could maintain temperature with some kind of radiator and freon system. Instead of a torque producing engine, it would be a beefed up version of the radiator system cars have now. Just thinking.
Report Post »Kasey
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:45amThere is a fundamental flaw in a lot of what you say. A lot of those things would be true if every man was an island, but they are not. Hens, “No man is an island.”
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:00amJust a friendly note/ Hence ;)
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:12amYeah another technology being developing outside the US. We create the image in a damn movie and another country creates the actual technology. I guess our movie making skills will be our best asset going forward. downloadable kentuckian
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:43amHey, don’t worry.. Nancy Pelosi has her son working on the mars robot. We’re all good. hahaha
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:12amMeanwhile, our American teens are working on getting epics and defeating the latest dungeon bosses, texting each other about fridays party, pestering their parents for an Ipad, dressing up as MTV refugees, stealing cosmetics and condoms from stores, piercing their bodies and getting another tattoo.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:03amOh you forgot dressing toddlers up like the opposite sex hoping to join the boy scouts as girls and girlscouts as boys as they are nudged into joining in on the leftist never ending gender bending lunatic fringe freak parade!!! ;)
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:42amThere is a repeated example of the theory, now lets see practical application. It could do wonders for fuel use.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:49amSort of re-defines “cool”
Report Post »CatCra
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:20pmIsreal leading the way – way cool technology!
God bless Isreal!
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