Sentences with phrase «of magnetic levitation»

a project for intercity passenger bus or rail facilities and vehicles, including facilities and vehicles owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and components of magnetic levitation transportation systems; and

SINCE 2004, visitors to Shanghai, China, have been able to take a train that whisks them at over 400 kilometres an hour from Pudong International Airport to the city centre using the smooth glide of magnetic levitation.

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It's not too late to take the pulpit and set a goal of building infrastructure for a national power grid, maglev [magnetic levitation] rail trains or even an Arctic research station.

Musk proposed in 2013 that a hyperloop system, which is similar to a magnetic levitation (maglev) train but runs through a low - resistance tunnel with much of its air removed, would cost $ 11.5 m (# 9.4 m) per mile to build.

Using magnetic levitation technology — used by train systems in countries including China, Japan, France and Germany — Virgin Hyperloop pods have already achieved speeds of 240 miles per hour.

Japanese prosecutors has raided the headquarters of Shimizu Corp. and Kajiam Corp. — two of Japan's largest construction firms — for alleged antitrust violations on a $ 80 billion contract for a magnetic levitation train line project.

Among the holy grails of physics, a room temperature superconductor, Dias said, could radically change our transportation system, making magnetic levitation of high - speed trains possible, as well as making electric cars more efficient and improving the performance of many electronic devices.

The levitation trick works because giant magnetic fields slightly distort the orbits of electrons in the frog's atoms.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first published paper on magnetic levitation (maglev) vehicles — authored by now - retired Brookhaven Lab researchers James Powell and Gordon Danby — James Powell's son Jesse presents this lecture on maglev's past, present, and potential for the future.

China's «MAGnetic LEVitation» rail system runs between Shanghai Airport and the city centre and reaches speeds of up to 431 kilometres per hour - the Shinkansen (Bullet train) in Japan, the TGV in France and the ICE in Germany only reach speeds of up to 320 kilometres per hour.

Magnetic levitation is a system of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles, using magneticMagnetic levitation is a system of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles, using magneticmagnetic forces.

As soon as the power is turned on, the interplay of magnetic fields lifts the train slightly off the track, hence the magnetic levitation.

Poor Regina didn't get anywhere near the global record, however.The world's fastest train is currently the Japanese JR Maglev (magnetic levitation train), which has clocked speeds of 581 km / h.