Maglevs require a relatively short journey that must be taken at relatively high speeds through relatively developed...
casstastrophy said:
It’s also worth noting that the majority of US passenger trains top out at 140km/h. With the exception of high speed rail in California and Texas, and ~80km of the Northeast corridor, no passenger rail in the US exceeds 201km/h. This is due to tracks not being updated to support higher speeds as technology advances. We don’t need maglev to become viable to improve our rail networks, we just need to fund the implementation of current, well tested rail technologies.
desertsolarpunk said:
Maglev is like fusion power, it’s always 5 years away.
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Maglevs are fucking cool they’re just really expensive and mostly impractical unless you’re Japan and even they’re...
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