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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They were invented decades ago.

They have fewer moving parts than wheelbois.

They require less maintenance.

There's obviously some bottleneck in expanding maglev technology, but what is it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happened with that by the way? I'm assuming since I haven't seen huge headlines since, it's not been replicated or it's been proven to be a hoax

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not replicated, they found some anomalies in the samples skewing the results

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the summary and the links!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It was basically proven not to be a super conductor