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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- The world's first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation will debut as early as 2008, a Tokyo-based company said Tuesday.Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp. will employ so-called maglev technology -- capable of suspending objects in mid-air through the combination of magnetic attraction and repulsion -- to control the lifts, it said in a statement.The maglev elevators will be quieter and more comfortable and will travel 300 meters (984 feet) per minute -- not as fast as the company's conventional lifts that can move up to 1,010 meters (3,314 feet) a minute, Toshiba said.Maglev technology has already been used to develop high-speed trains. The only passenger-carrying maglev train in the world links Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, to the city center at speeds of 430 kilometers (267 miles) per hour.A maglev shuttle in Birmingham, U.K. was abandoned in 1995 after 11 years in operation because of technical glitches.
fuck that, it's only a matter of time until the power cuts, the magnets fail, then the elevator drops...
^^ i dont know, but you'd think the magnets are powered with electricity.
Quote from: Chief on January 17, 2006, 08:32:54 PM^^ i dont know, but you'd think the magnets are powered with electricity.you know what a magnet is?
that shit must have security systems with generetor if power fail
Quote from: Ðøšïå on January 17, 2006, 09:56:33 PMQuote from: Chief on January 17, 2006, 08:32:54 PM^^ i dont know, but you'd think the magnets are powered with electricity.you know what a magnet is?Apparently you don't. You know how big a standard non electro-magnet would have to be to suspend a fucking elevator? Huge. It's obviously an electro-magnet, they're hundreds of times more powerful than traditional magnets the same size. If your mind would have wondered a little farther, maybe you would have tried to realize how they would use a regular magnet to move an elevator up or down. They couldn't, because you can't adjust the magnetic properties of a stable magnet, you'd have to use an electro-magnet and control the current raising or lowering the level of repulsion or attraction. Yet another example of somebody acting like they know shit, when the guy he was critisizing was right the entire time.