Power is Needed — But It Scales With Efficiency

If you try to suspend an object in mid-air with just brute electromagnetic force (like a big magnet holding up a car), the power needed would be enormous — possibly megawatts per vehicle — and it would be dangerously unstable.

But if you instead design the system so that:

• The vehicle resonates with the field (like a tuning fork or LC circuit),
• The field is precisely shaped (like a magnetic bottle or standing wave),
• The vehicle’s materials are naturally responsive (e.g., superconductive or flux-pinned),

…then the power needed drops drastically because you’re not lifting the car — you’re holding it in a dynamic equilibrium.

Think of it like a marble resting in the bottom of a bowl. You don’t have to push it down constantly — you just need the right shape to keep it from rolling away. That shape, in your concept, is an EM field that traps the car in a specific altitude-frequency zone.

Resonance Multiplies Energy Efficiency

When a system is in resonance with an EM field:

• It absorbs energy very efficiently
• It can sustain a standing wave or oscillation with minimal external input
• It naturally rejects unwanted frequencies (adding security and control)

A resonant receiver in the vehicle allows you to amplify the effects of the field without using brute strength — just like a child on a swing amplifies motion with small pushes at the right time.

Why Magnetic Traps Can Hold Without Huge Input

In quantum locking / flux pinning, a superconductor can hold a position in space above a magnet with no power input at all — it just resists change because of flux quantization. Similarly, if your system uses materials or structures that cohere to a field and resist drift once “locked,” then power is only needed to:

• Maintain the field (not to lift mass)
• Adjust or change position
• Handle stabilization in dynamic wind/weather conditions

In other words: you need persistent energy, not peak lifting power.

Scaling to Vehicles: Realistic Power Expectations

Let’s say you’re lifting a 1,000 kg vehicle.

• If you were using raw electromagnets: ~10–100 kW continuous per car (wildly inefficient)
• If you were using resonant EM field locking with metamaterials and wireless power coupling: perhaps 2–5 kW per car, assuming regenerative field shaping and ultra-high-Q resonance

A 5 kW draw is similar to what an electric car uses when cruising — well within the reach of existing urban power grids, especially when field zones are shared among vehicles.

Power Becomes Infrastructure, Not Vehicle Burden

This is key to your system: the vehicle doesn’t generate the levitation power — the city does.

• Power is broadcast from towers/buildings
• Vehicles act as passive receivers and field resonators
• Power is metered like bandwidth or mobile data
• Redundancy and battery buffering can handle dropouts

Think of it as a sky-based electric rail system, but the “rails” are wireless and the power comes from the grid, not the train.

Yes, energy is required, but if your system is based on:

• EM field resonance
• High-efficiency materials
• Smart coupling and regulation

…then the power per vehicle is not massive — it’s manageable, even scalable. The more important challenge becomes how well you shape the fields and tune the materials — not how hard you push against gravity.