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I wonder how long you could get one of those to spin in a vacuum.

Halbach arrays with compensating coils have been proposed for some interesting applications, such as low loss flywheels for electrical storage. I don't know if that ever got commercialized but I do recall that some prototypes were made by a US company. I can't find a reference to it though.



>I wonder how long you could get one of those to spin in a vacuum.

Not too much longer apparently...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn7IedCgva0




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