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Rotor Sails Bring Windpower Propulsion Back to Maritime Vessels

April 10, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off

Adapting a century-old concept to modern technology and green energy demands, Finnish company Norsepower is bringing its novel rotor sails onboard a variety of marine vessels to help propel them through ocean waters. The company recently scored a number of contracts to place its auxiliary wind propulsion systems with leading fleet operators as demand mounts for greener shipping in the world’s seas. Separately, a Korean research group is investigating the use of magnetically levitated bearings to adapt rotor sails for use in coastal waters where wind is more variable. […]

Calnetix Blower System Launched to International Space Station

November 17, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off

Calnetix Technologies reports that NASA has completed ground testing of its new carbon dioxide removal system and has successfully launched the high-speed blower system to the International Space Station . The system includes the company’s […]

Magnetic Levitation Studied at JPL for Moving Payloads Around the Moon

August 23, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off

While rich tourists may be thinking about a space voyage, scientists at NASA have their sights on more mundane pursuits, like moving payloads around the moon. Magnetic levitation could be the key. […]

Calnetix Develops Key Magnetic Components for International Space Station

August 5, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off

Calnetix Technologies has designed and developed a high-speed in-line blower and a dual controller for NASA’s next-generation magnetically levitated CO2 removal system. The design and development of the Four Bed Carbon Dioxide Scrubber (4BCO2) is being led by NASA and is planned […]

Seeing Planar Motor Inc’s Magnetic Levitation System in Action is Believing

June 4, 2020 Editorial Staff Comments Off

Seeing is believing and one disappointment from the string of trade show cancellations due to Covid-19 is that more people must wait longer to see Planar Motor Inc’s fascinating magnetic levitation system for automation applications. […]

Goudsmit Develops Steel Sheet Separator with Fail-Safe Magnet & Assists Hyperloop Project in Netherlands

April 14, 2020 Editorial Staff Comments Off

Goudsmit Magnetics, a producer of magnetic systems based in The Netherlands, has recently developed an innovative fail-safe neodymium magnetic sheet separator and, in another project, is providing magnetics expertise to developers of a visionary hyperloop transportation project for Europe. Equipped with powerful neodymium magnets that […]

MAGLEV 2020 Announced

July 22, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off

The 25th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, MAGLEV 2020, will be held in Changsha, PR China, from October 12 – 14, 2020. The MAGLEV 2020 conference invites experts, public officials, decision-makers, planners, […]

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