So they just got this giant magnet thats supposedly able to lift an aircraft carrier to France. How do they move something like that??
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They’re using custom trucks and boats.
Source: [I read an article.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnpjm/this-magnet-can-lift-an-aircraft-carrier-and-will-attempt-nuclear-fusion)
> The module will be loaded into a special 24-axle transport vehicle that will drive only at night due to its sheer size until it reaches the coast of Texas, where it will be placed on a ship due to arrive in Marseilles, France, in late August.
Keep in mind they’re not *using* the magnet to move an aircraft carrier. It’d be a lot easier to just use the aircraft carrier’s engines to move it. This magnet is a part of what scientists hope will be the first viable fusion reactor. “Viable” here means it takes less energy to operate it than it generates.
News articles are just pointing out this magnet has enough power that if we put it on a sci-fi crane that had enough material strength for the load, this magnet could lift so much weight an aircraft carrier is the closest thing to that weight.
But this magnet isn’t for lifting things. It’s for helping contain the same kind of reaction that’s happening inside the sun. That takes a lot of strength.
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