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Magnetic Bearings That House Their Own Controls
- albertsun 17y agoThe mobile site is not actually a more pleasant reading experience.
- alofus 17y agoI've had the idea to travel to the sun to collect huge amounts of energy. But how to store the energy and bring it back to earth? One possibility would be to store it as rotational energy, and that would mean to attain a high number of revolutions/sec (or alternatively do that with the spacecraft itself). But I'm by no means an expert, so I want to ask: Could magnetic tools like these be used to in-/decrease rotation and keep it stable? Maybe in a setup comparable to quadcopters to control the rotation of the overall system?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoThis business looks like it has a tremendous amount of upside -- as they get better, I'm sure the prices will come down, making them more and more competitive in more and more markets. It could (if industrialized enough) replace huge swaths of other industries. EDIT: and on a personal note, these guys are about an hour away from my startup. Go Southwest Virginia!
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoJust for reference, my regular browser refuses to open the mobile version.