Why the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) Train

Levitating Trains The Maglev exacts A accept is a connected series of rail vehicles propelled along a track to transport shipment or passengers. -Wikipedia Trains now days argon most comm exactly used for the transport of passengers across long distances, they are fast enough to reach a constant go between 65 km/h to around 120km/h, although the record speed of a conventional propose is of 575 km/h, held by the cut TGV. It needed some modifications (shorter and higher voltage) and had passengers in it.Although, the record for non-conventional train is held by the JR-Maglev, a Japanese experimental train reaching the 581km/h without passengers (precaution) on a Magnetic-Levitation track. Answering how a train works is a very hard question, assuming we are talking about locomotives they all conduct a reservoir behind the crews cab about half the size of a Volkswagen Beetle that powers the train with electricity by spinning, but the electrical output requires a flowerpot of en ergy, thats why there is a huge and powerful diesel engine that provides this power.Ignoring what the possible price of putting down a rail 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 commercial train there is about 636 wheels, so there is 318 axles, which adds up to total of $10,494 . There isnt an exact schedule on how often they change train wheels, it all depends on the rail and how much braking the train does, for example, if its a very curvy road, more braking is applied and the more the wheels get wasted, and eventually, this slows down the entire vehicle.Regular trains withal 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 deteriorates the materials and can chance upon a huge sound, and if its a train that goes by a big town, there might be noise complaints. Since friction se ems to be the ascendant of all problems, why not remove it? Friction is a natural force 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, needless to say, as I aim mentioned 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 mastermind 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 part 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 problem, now that there is a garner (15mm) space between the rail and the train wheels there is no friction involved, so no w 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 TRAINAnother 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 staring price of 1. 2 billion, although it is expected for the price to fall to 1,800,000 in the next 30 years.In the long run and in this case a very long run because 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, culturall y 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 move, 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 afraid of bringing these ideas to their country and then end up being an absolute 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 and rail parts since they wont deteriorate because there is no friction involved. Social Everyone is going to want to ride the super cool levitating train because it s a SUPER COOL 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 still dont know why I wrote that down Bibliography URL http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/MaglevTechnology Title Maglev Latest date modified (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