Sentences with phrase «levitating trains»

A room - temperature superconductor would enable robust energy storage devices, MRI machines that don't require liquid helium coolant and a new generation of levitating trains.

High - temperature superconductors could lead to faster, more efficient electronic devices, grids that can transmit power without energy loss and ultra-fast levitating trains that ride frictionless magnets instead of rails.

Because they generate large magnetic fields they are an essential component in MRI scanners and levitating trains.

Superconductivity's potential technological applications — which include energy - efficient power transmission, superstrong magnets and levitating trains — have attracted heaps of scientific interest in the phenomenon.

If found, such a substance could lead to dramatic improvements in power transmission, computing and high - speed magnetically levitated trains, among other things.

Potential industrial applications for these superconductors — which range from the storage and transmission of energy to magnetically levitated trains — will require tonnes of the material.

In August, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced his vision for Hyperloop, a levitating train that would shoot through a low - pressure, above - ground tunnel at 760 mph.

In 1972, Rand scientist R.M. Salter Jr. proposed a magnetically levitated train to blast through an airless underground tunnel from Los Angeles to New York at thousands of miles per hour.

We discuss serially and in increasing detail railroads, cars, airplanes, and magnetically levitated trains (maglevs).

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High - speed maglev trains make extensive use of such magnets to levitate the cars above their tracks.

Air Bonsai mixes the old tradition of training miniature bonsai, with modern technology to levitate the tiny tree in mid air.