As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
Busy with environmental impact statements and lawsuits.
China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
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#12Hasn't the last 50 years of attempting these shown that they're uneconomic in the extreme, and probably will continue to be even if China puts its admittedly heavily state-subsidized rail-building prowess behind it?
They are?
I thought the unprofitable ones were subsidized by profitable lines and for strategic reasons.
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#13dang, can we ban this account? It looks very suspicous (posting a lot of pro-China stuff, username, etc.)
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#14As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
This feed should give you some indication:
https://twitter.com/metronorth
We're struggling with rain and leaves.
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#15> If technology proves to be viable, a 2,200-km trip from Wuhan to Guangzhou could be reduced to around two hours
Driving, this is only 984km. Shouldn't it be one hour?
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#16Meanwhile, in America...
If you like China so much...
I'm not a fan of regimes that concentrate religious minorities in camps, enforce an ideological form of social engineering through "social credit", harvest organs on an industrial scale, or disappear people for having views out of step with dear leader Winnie the Pooh. Rather, I feel a profound sense of disappointment at the sight of an America that used to move mountains and earth to improve the human condition, and, at a time of historically unprecedented aggregate wealth, productivity, and technological advancement, finds itself unable or unwilling to commit itself to the sorts of enterprises that less fortunate nations have no problem undertaking.
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#18As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
Isn't Tesla working on Ultra-Fast 'Hyperloop' Trains?
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#19As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
American here. Public transportation is seen as inconvenient and for lower class people, so large transit projects like this get no traction. You will never see executives or politicians taking trains to work like you do in European countries. Except in NYC.
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#20This sounds like more of a hyperloop type thing than a traditional maglev train:
> if the concept of maglev trains swinging inside a vacuum tube can be put into practice
That means this will also have all the same problems as a hyperloop.