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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
I thought super insanely strong fields required loads of power or intensities beyond that of any permanent magnets.
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The classic levitating frog experiment
http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/
used 16 tesla fields to levitate a frog against Earth's gravity. In space, of course, you can get by with much less. Modern superconducting magnets using classical (
i.e. low temperature) superconductors regularly reach 15 tesla and and can be engineered to reach 20 to 30 tesla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet
High temperature superconductor magnets are being bult that are expected to reach into the 30+ tesla range.
https://nationalmaglab.org/magnet-de...s/32-tesla-scm
At TL 11 we can probably safely assume that robust, flexible, high Tc superconductive tape is a mature technology, allowing high field magnets with at most liquid nitrogen temperatures - if not replaced by something better.
Luke