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Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 7:21 pm
by DarkElves>All
Marty McFly's 2015 had hoverboards ... and so does ours!:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ener ... gy-energy/
Re: Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:53 pm
by Konrad
That is so cool, and I am not even a skater-dude.
I wince when I think about how much money is being sunk into this Linear thing. I mean it's going to be like banks of super-conducting magnets, cooled to near absolute zero, from here to Tokyo. They'll need a new nuke plant just to fire it up. And these McFly guys are, "Hey, you can levitate on a skateboard and a sheet of graphite or copper or whatever..." Though, I'm sure there its more complicated than that.
Re: Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 6:31 pm
by DarkElves>All
Hadn't heard of the Linear thing before now. Is it also called the
Chuo Shinkansen?
Quite an epic space-age type project; mostly straight and underground through mountains
In regards to the hoverboard; I never imagined it would be possible to levitate a person with just magnetic fields using a power unit small enough to fit inside a board-shaped object!