I remember my dad being a fan of maglev back probably in the late 1950's
or early 60's. IIRC he wanted to build a deep tunnel under the ocean.
Seemed kinda cool to me at the time.
I wonder if these days the darn things would erase everybody's hard drive?
- Tom
and, to take the "social control of mobility" a few steps further, mag-lev, would take millions of people to where only thousands want to travel, and avoid all the friction/wastage issues with "flanged wheels."
I first heard this argument 24 years ago. Mag lev -- at least for urban/interurban transport which is what most transport is -- is still too expensive to even contemplate. And, all the long distance systems are subsidized by states.
John Willkie
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Or, all you electric, hybrid and other alternative power car fanatics could reduce the coefficient of friction to 1% of what rubber has for the road by taking the train.
Steel against steel is far more efficient than rubber against asphalt.
John Shutt wrote:
Kon,
After you paid for the 6,800 Li-Ion battery cells to put in your $35,000 Elise, you're back up to the $100k range again. In fact (as if you didn't know) the Tesla rolling chassis is built by Lotus. Imagine that?
John
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What they fail to mention is that the Tesla can't possibly take advantage of all that torque at the crank without spinning the wheels - heck it has 7.5" wheel width in the rear!
A $35k Lotus Elise with a few modifications (maybe none) would probably beat it. Just think of what you could save :)
Cheers Kon
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