>People laughed when ThyssenKrupp, a company synonymous with elevators, announced it was developing one that goes every which way. Who'd ever heard of such a thing? Everyone knows elevators go just two directions: Up and down. Some took to calling it the Wonkavator, after Willy Wonka’s wacky lift that goes sideways, slantways, and longways. >"There were some doubts," company CEO Patrick Bass says with just a bit of understatement. >Put aside your doubts. After three years of work, the company is testing the Multi in a German tower and finalizing the safety certification. This crazy contraption zooms up, down, left, right, and diagonally. ThyssenKrupp just sold the first Multi to a residential building under construction in Berlin, and expects to sell them to other developers soon.
>Multi ditches the cables that suspend conventional elevator cars in favor of magnetic levitation, the same technology used in high-speed trains and the proposed HyperLoop. Strong magnets on every Multi car work with a magnetized coil running along the elevator hoistway’s guide rails to make the cars float. >Turning these coils on and off creates magnetic fields strong enough to pull the car in various directions.
>You can see why developers might be eager to install such a thing in their megabuildings. But the real selling point lies in Multi's ability to facilitate far more elaborate or complex buildings. Until now, architects have had to design around the elevator shafts, which can comprise 40 percent of a building's core. Multi could allow them to install elevators almost anywhere, including the perimeter. >Bass sees a day when buildings are less self-contained, and more connected to the surrounding city. “You'll no longer see this hard division between how you get to a building and how you are transported within a building,” he says. You'll still go up and down, but also sideways, slantways, and longways.
tl;dr me, does it still only move on a 2D plane or can you actually install 3D rails? Because only shows a 2D layout
Andrew Diaz
This technology should enable architects to create more futuristic and challenging building designs since the elevator shaft has always been the limiting factor in non conventional buildings. Not to mention elevator pully systems occupy 40 percent of skyscrapers space . This is an important innovation, and the most significant step towards creating more interconnected urban centres. Just imagine hoping on to one these elevators from your cyberpunk condo and in a few minutes, you're at a train station.
Just think, if the Nazis had won, technology would be hundreds of years more advanced than the shit we have nowadays. The Allied forces were a mistake.
Asher Jenkins
You know the Germans always make good stuff.
Hudson Wright
Less a Willy Wonka elevator and more a Turbolift from Star Trek.
Gabriel Morgan
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Elijah Reyes
Not to mention overpopulation would not be an issue, which in turn would help the environment greatly.
Justin Bennett
so instead of wasting 40% of the building on an elevator (which is BS numbers anyway) So the solution is to spend more?
Landon Adams
Didn't this guy reiserfs some hooker?
Landon Reed
The difference is that if the system fails for a train, the train stops. If the elevator fails, it will fall.
Xavier White
>If the elevator fails, it will fall. What prevents them from having something mechanical that will engage and catch the elevator to prevent it from falling when the mag shit fails?
Angel Garcia
>in the near future everyone will live in little cuck apartments in mega cities
This tech is already around. The brakes are linked to whatever holds the elevator in place. If there's no tension, the brakes are released.
Xavier Hernandez
The problem is that you need an external system to work in order to make it safe. Cable elevators can stand still without using any power
Cooper Murphy
What a fucking load of bullshit, is the newest scam? Just show it working faggot? >They use the same maglev system you find in Japanese trains You mean the one they don't use anymore because it was hard to build and maintain? The same one used in every other technology scam such as the hoverboard? Now I know that it's a scam for sure.
Aaron Scott
are you retarded? they mechanically lock in place.
Jonathan Gonzalez
Considering the only types buildings that these elevators will be suitable for are jumbo skyscrapers with units that costs upwards of 100 million dollars, saving 10 percent of wasted space would pay for these elevators. And architects would be able to build taller towers more cheaply since towers over 200 metres require multiple state of the art elevator system, which would costs a fortune designing and maintaining. The return on investment would be immediate. This is going to be the industrial norm once they can prove the safety record of these elevators.
Brayden Sullivan
>This is going to be the industrial norm... Never. It doesn't work.
Jayden Lewis
I feel like it would completely change the way that the lateral system needs to be designed since elevator and stair cores//the walls are a big part of what keeps the building from falling over due to wind/seismic shit. Then again, these massive 80+ story towers could be different from the baby towers I am familiar with.
Benjamin King
missed that culti
Jaxon Campbell
That looks like a lot of moving parts to me. Better get used to seeing more and more "Out of service" signs.
Xavier Sanchez
WTF??? Why they are improving old technology instead of creating something like a teleportation pads? What a bunch of crap... just milking money with old tech instead of inovating...
Wyatt Flores
Well like a train network, I'm sure you could just replace broken maglev elevators. It's not fixed onto anything like elevators are. But we will have to see how these elevators function in the real world first. These guys seem competent though, so I'm sure they'll figure it out.
Jackson Peterson
Nazi roots? They were around way before National Socialists you massive faggot.
John Nguyen
>fails for a train, the train stops What? If train fails near the turn if doesn't stop, it derails. Maglev trains and well as common trains have emergency breaks for this very reason.
Nolan Wilson
Krupp made cannons for everyone in europe since like 1860
Dylan Cruz
>magnetic levitation will this wipe my harddrives every time I get in?
Austin Perez
Sweet, so, we have tubolifts?
Jace Long
>If train fails near the turn if doesn't stop, it derails. You're a fucking retard. If a train fails near the turn it just turns and gradually stops; just as it would've turned if it hadn't failed. Can you even into trains faggot?
Noah Reyes
this will make arcologies feasable
Blake Ortiz
Seems a more practical use is as replacement for overhead cranes in the process industry
thyssenkrupp has steel mills so that's probably the real reason this was developed
Brayden James
Krupp predates Germany and Thyssen was founded in 1891. Not Nazi origins.
