14 DAY TRIAL // Scientists at the technology company Novateq Guerrero SNL have recently announced the development of a new type of linear transport system, one that is absolutely clean and does not harm the environment. The system draws its energy in part from the permanent magnetic fields that certain magnetic materials generate at all times, and in part from the spatial configuration that these materials have. According to its creators, the innovation has a host of applications in fields such as agriculture, health and transport, because of its many advantages.
AlphaGalileo reports that the new, clean transportation system will also require less personnel to operate, and will not produce large amounts of sound pollution, like freight trains do, for example. Novateq is one of the companies that have been studying the properties of permanent magnetic fields for a long time, in addition to several other lines of study, and is therefore very well-equipped for making breakthroughs in this area. At this point, the firm is focusing all of its resources into research & development & implementation, and a prototype of its transport system has already been produced.
The new linear transport system is not designed to carry passengers, and cannot be used on very long distances, except if its tracks are built in a straight line. As its producers advertise it, the system will consist of a platform, able to carry large weights that will move autonomously along a predefined, straight route, from point A to point B. Its goal is to make it easier for people to move things around in small areas, such as, for example, when unloading a boat. A platform will shuttle along on the tracks, get loaded and then unloaded at the other end of the line.
Steel alloy-modified neodymium magnets are, at this point, the safest bet the team has at constructing a large-scale prototype of its system. Scientists explain that this type of magnets is made up of neodymium, iron, boron and nickel, and that it is about nine times stronger than conventional magnets. The energy the platform will use to move on the tracks will be derived from the specific combination of attraction and repulsion forces generated by the permanent magnetic fields around neodymium.