This blog is for the students and the instructors (Professor John C. Henderson and myself) to continue the conversations on the role of information technology in modern corporations at Boston University. Please feel free to join the conversation by commenting on our posts and discussions.
That's an incredible article. I wouldn't think that technology would have hard time taking off...it's effectively the same principle of how an electric car works.
The next application to look for, albeit in the distant future once there is more traction, is looking at countries with maglev trains and utilizing those systems to "move" energy. I think Germany and Japan both have maglev trains on a large scale, China too perhaps. A magnetic field will create a voltage, and from that you can induce a current. Effectively the moving train could act as an electrical generator using the magnetic field as its source. Depending on the power consumption of the train and the amount of voltage created in the magnetic field, excess energy could be transferred from the system. Energy can neither be created or destroyed, but can be transferred. Consequently, the magnetic field would have to be created from magnetic material rather than a power source. You could then create a software program that utilizes the power transferred from the train to the electrical grid.
That's an incredible article. I wouldn't think that technology would have hard time taking off...it's effectively the same principle of how an electric car works.
ReplyDeleteThe next application to look for, albeit in the distant future once there is more traction, is looking at countries with maglev trains and utilizing those systems to "move" energy. I think Germany and Japan both have maglev trains on a large scale, China too perhaps. A magnetic field will create a voltage, and from that you can induce a current. Effectively the moving train could act as an electrical generator using the magnetic field as its source. Depending on the power consumption of the train and the amount of voltage created in the magnetic field, excess energy could be transferred from the system. Energy can neither be created or destroyed, but can be transferred. Consequently, the magnetic field would have to be created from magnetic material rather than a power source. You could then create a software program that utilizes the power transferred from the train to the electrical grid.