Why the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) Train

Levitating Trains The magnetic levitation gear ups A claim is a connected series of lead vehicles propelled a eagle-eyed a cut through to transport cargo or passengers. -Wikipedia Trains now days argon just about commonly used for the transport of passengers across ache distances, they are loyal enough to r apiece a constant speed between 65 km/h to around 120km/h, although the record speed of a pompous get hold of is of 575 km/h, held by the French TGV. It needed some modifications (shorter and higher(prenominal) voltage) and had passengers in it.Although, the record for non-conventional control is held by the JR-magnetic levitation, a Japanese experimental gibe reaching the 581km/h without passengers (precaution) on a Magnetic-Levitation track. Answering how a devise works is a really hard question, assuming we are talking about railway locomotives they all(prenominal) fall in a generator dirty dog the crews cab about half the size of a Volkswagen Beetle that pow ers the train with electricity by spinning, but the electrical output requires a roach of energy, thats why thither is a spacious and powerful diesel engine engine that provides this power.Ignoring what the possible price of putting eat a kick could be, I am going to calculate the price of having to get wheels and how long they last. A single axle 2 wheels costs $33, on the average mer behindtile train in that location is about 636 wheels, so in that location is 318 axles, which adds up to tot of $10,494 . There isnt an exact schedule on how often they remove train wheels, it all depends on the rail and how much braking the train does, for example, if its a very curvy road, more than than braking is applied and the more the wheels get wasted, and eventually, this slows down the entire vehicle.Regular trains also suffer from bumps and weather can play a difference in the performance of the train, the fact that the train is connected to the rail and to the floor shake off s the materials and can make a huge sound, and if its a train that goes by a big town, there might be noise complaints. Since friction seems to be the root of all paradoxs, why not remove it? Friction is a natural suck up that occurs when an object or more encounter moving over each other or two objects rubbing against each other. How can a train overcome this?If only it could levitate well, need little to say, as I have menti whizzd a few paragraphs back, there is such a train, one that levitates with magnetism, the Maglev train, which by the name might sound Russian, but the nous behind it is Alfred Zehden (German), although he gave it a name in English Maglev (MAGnetic LEVitation). The train levitates with electromagnetic (the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields) C-shaped arms, with the top detonate of the arms connected to the train and the inside part holding the magnets, so the rail is situated in the space within the C.Since friction was the factor that was creating the hassle, now that there is a clear (15mm) space between the rail and the train wheels there is no friction involved, so now the train speeds up faster to its average speed of 430km/h and it also slows down easier without any sound, and it goes unaffected by non-extreme weather, if the town has a power there is no problem because it has its own generator and also lets not forget it is super cool because it is a LEVITATING TRAIN some other feature it has is that regular locomotives can only run at a minimum speed of about 30km/h, with electromagnets there is no such problem, the train can cruise around at whatever its chosen speed is. The price of a regular (and might I add, boring) locomotive is around $2,300,000 with an added $35,000 for fuel and repairs, whereas the maglev has a more expensive gaze price of 1. 2 billion, although it is expected for the price to fall to 1,800,000 in the conterminous 30 years.In the long run and in this case a very long run becau se trains are one of the vehicles that last the longest, the maglev is more profitable than regular locomotives Cultural As far as I am aware, culturally there shouldnt be any problem with the maglev unless there is some cult out there that Im not aware of that hate electromagnetism. Political If anything, on the long run the government profit from this investment, considering its the fastest commercial train in the world, it gets a lot of attention. On the other hand, only 4 countries have patented the idea and of those only 2 (Aichi, Japan and Shanghai, China) have constructed the rains and 2 other under construction in Seoul, South Korea and a second one in China, which leads to think that other governments are apprehensive of bringing these ideas to their country and then end up being an implicit failure. Environmental The maglev train actually does benefit the environment since there is less friction and therefore less fuel is used, and also less resources to replace train an d rail parts since they wont deteriorate because there is no friction involved. Social Everyone is going to want to posture the super cool levitating train because its a SUPER change LEVITATING TRAINIn conclusion, I think I have stated my point very clearly and we have solved the friction problem thanks to our friend electromagnetism. -August Paloluoma P. S please ignore Social, I remedy dont know why I wrote that down Bibliography universal resource locator http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/MaglevTechnology designation Maglev Latest date circumscribed (LDM) 3 November 2012 at 1801. URL http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train Title Shanghai Maglev train LDM 31 October 2012 at 1451. URL http//science. howstuffworks. com/transport/engines/maglev-train. htm Title How the Maglev train works LDM 26 January 2012