Physical Economy and Technology Report for September 16, 2024: What We Strive to Achieve

Posts in today's report:

• First Human Implant of Maglev Artificial Heart
• Chinese Demonstrate Superconducting Maglev Flight in Evacuated Tube
• Interview with Founder/CEO of Boom Supersonic
• Boeing Strike
• NASA’s Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy, Sept. 12, 2024
• Augustine Warns That NASA Is Being Undermined by Inadequate Funding
• Trump at the Economic Club of New York

First Human Implant of Maglev Artificial Heart

In July, the first patient-volunteer received an implanted artificial heart with only one moving part—the impeller—which is suspended by magnetic levitation and touches nothing but blood. The patient was the first of five to receive the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart as a bridge device to keep patients alive while waiting for suitable human hearts to become available. The patient lived with the device for 8 days until a transplant became possible. He has been in good health since receiving his transplanted human heart. The test program is being carried out at the Texas Heart Institute of the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

Fellows Implant World-First Magnetic Levitation Artificial Heart

A 57-year-old male patient experiencing end-stage heart failure is the first to receive BiVACOR’s total artificial heart.

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The Texas Heart Institute Implants BiVACOR® Total Artificial Heart

Houston, Texas, July 25, 2024 – The Texas Heart Institute (THI) and BiVACOR®, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced today the successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Early Feasibility Study (EFS) on July 9, 2024. BiVACOR’s TAH is a titanium-constructed biventricular rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor that pumps the blood and replaces both ventricles of a failing heart.

The Texas Heart Institute®Keri Sprung

Chinese Demonstrate Superconducting Maglev Flight in Evacuated Tube

By placing their superconducting maglev test vehicle inside a 2-kilometer low vacuum tube, the Institute of Maglev and Electromagnetic Propulsion of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation succeeded in reaching a speed of about 621 kph, exceeding the long-standing Japanese superconducting maglev record of 603 kph. It should be expected that by lengthening the test tube, the Chinese should be able to reach their initial goal of 1,000 kph. That would exceed the speed at which typical jet airliners travel. They ultimately aim for 4,000 kph. As America considers development of high speed rail systems, systems within evacuated tubes should be put at the top of the list of candidate technologies. [Note that the headline of the New Atlas article, referenced below, mistakenly lists the speed as 621 mph instead of 621 kph.]

Ultra fast maglev train clears trial in Shanxi

A novel ultra high-speed maglev transportation system under development recently passed a trial run in Datong, Shanxi province.

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621-mph maglev vacuum train “T-Flight” test successful

In February of this year, we reported on the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and its phase one testing of a low-vacuum-tube hyperloop-style maglev ultra-high-speed (UHS) train. In initial 1.24-mile-long (2-km) tests, the T-Flight hit a whopping 387 mph (623 km/h).

New AtlasChina Science via X