That's amazing!
Surely technology like that would prevent derailing trains, however would it be possible to do on a larger scale?
( WebmasterFF has nothing to do but write this post on, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 2:41, Reply)

The holy grail of science
is a room temperature superconductor.
(funkenstein Born from an egg on a mountain top, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 21:34, Reply)

Room temperature is a bit much to ask...
... but engineering would be satisfied with one where the energy cost of cooling the conductor was less than the resistive losses :)
(douchebarge, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 6:21, Reply)

Pardon the Pun
They've been trying to get one off the ground over at Old Dominion University. The diff 'tween ODU's and the Japanese thing is that the 'guts' of the system are in the car, not the track. Alignment problems are the main reason they haven't been able to make a good show of it.
(thanatos, Mon 29 Sep 2008, 2:30, Reply)