Recently, Lexus introduced a short teaser video for SLIDE, a hoverboard that appears to not just live up to our Back to the Future II
dreams but, at least an improve on them. Better yet, it’s
more science than science fiction. Here’s how it works. MAGNETS!!! purely magnets
According to Lexus, its hoverboard relies on superconductors and
magnets, which combine to repel the force of gravity and lift an
object. With a superconductor you don’t need to have an oscillating magnetic field, Instead you have something called the Meissner effect,
which essentially says that when you take a magnetic field near the
superconductor, it induces current in that superconductor, and creates
essentially an image magnetic field on the other side of the
superconductor. You create current, but since it’s a superconductor, the
currents don’t die away. So you don’t need oscillating magnetic fields.
You can have a magnet that levitates above a superconductor or vice
versa, a superconductor that levitates above a magnet.
As for the wisps of smoke you see rising from the sides of the Lexus
board? That’s not just for effect That’s liquid nitrogen, cooling the superconductors below their
transition temperature. The temp at which it becomes superconducting.
Just how cold are we talking? -321 degrees Farenheit, says Palm, who
also cautions that it’s not quite as extreme as it sounds. “That sounds
very cold,” . “but liquid nitrogen is actually a byproduct
of the steel industry, so it’s pretty inexpensive.” It’s the same
principle as the dry ice you played with in elementary Chemistry, just around
three times as cold.
When the liquid nitrogen runs out, the superconductors warm up and
the hoverboard stops, well, hovering, until you top it off again.
It will be fun if it's finally mass produced, you know, levitate anywhere, like a witch.
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