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A new method could pull power from Earth’s magnetic field

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...
Oil

New rotating magnet ranging systems useful in oil sands, CBM developments

Rotating magnet ranging (RMR) is the one of the latest technologies used in development drilling for coalbed methane and oil sands. Tools developed over the last 25 years by Vector Magnetics LLC, ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Selected by Japan's NIRS to Supply World's First Rotating Gantry with Superconducting Magnets for Carbon Ion Radiotherapy

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that it has received an order from Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) for the world’s first rotating ...
GIGAZINE

The secret of the mysterious phenomenon that when a high-speed rotating magnet is brought close to another magnet, the magnet rotates and levitates is revealed.

When two magnets are placed facing each other with the same poles, they repel each other, and if you place one magnet under the other, it is possible to make one magnet float. However, simply ...
Machine Design

Magnets seal it off

When moving seals are needed, ferrofluid seals often offer performance and life benefits that surpass alternatives. This is most true when rotary motion When moving seals are needed, ferrofluid seals ...