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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would be great for magnet fishing

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Find MH370

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Boeing 777s are made of aluminum. Non-ferrous.

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

At these field strengths you can probably wiggle the magnet and pull up the plane via eddie currents.