Really cool and possible idea for BL motors.

[Boaterguy]

quantum levitation, useing superconductivity and magnets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtI...eature=related < this one talks about how it works

[Jacked1]

Once the make room temp super conductors there are going to be so many uses for them!

[Boaterguy]

yeah.
do you think we could do this for motors? i'm sure we could make the shaft and mags (exact vocabulary is escaping me) "hover" instead of using bearings and put coils arount the superconductor on the stator (the mags would be on the shaft, the opposite of in the video) to spin the shaft.

[drwayne]

yeah.
do you think we could do this for motors? i'm sure we could make the shaft and mags (exact vocabulary is escaping me) "hover" instead of using bearings and put coils arount the superconductor on the stator (the mags would be on the shaft, the opposite of in the video) to spin the shaft.

The flux compression causes a trip effect on the superconductor laminar construct.
Certainly good for stasis support of shaft... but you will not see 2 aligned superconductors touch.. each stasis field repels the other as much as itself.. a mechanical shaft would have lockup against rotation unless the field were cycling. .. sadly at 0'K there are no current flows to support that .

W

[Boaterguy]

saw something about graphine superconductors the other day, that room temp thing is getting closer and closer.

[Boaterguy]

someone should turn one of these into a prop balancer (if you thought of this before, i'm slow don't be mean D:)