Combined passive bearing element/generator motor

An electric machine, comprising:

• a cylindrical rotor comprising an array of permanent magnets that provide an N-pole magnetic field of even order, wherein N=4, 6, 8, etc., wherein said array of permanent magnets comprises bars of identical permanent magnets assembled in a circle, wherein said bars are dipole elements, wherein each bar of said bars has a vector direction of magnetization that rotates at N times the rate as that of a vector rotating about said circle pointing from the center of said N-pole field to the center of said elements, wherein the direction of rotation of the dipole elements relative to the vector rotating about said circle is such that said N-pole field is maximized outside of said array;
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• a stator surrounding said N-pole field, wherein said stator comprises a first set of windings and a second set of windings, wherein said first set of windings and said second set of windings are electrically orthogonal to each other, wherein said first set of windings provides stabilization of said stator and said second set of windings couples to said array of permanent magnets and acts as the windings of a generator/motor, wherein said rotor and said stator are horizontally disposed, wherein said stator is on the outside of said rotor.