Dear Mark, Mag-Lev is the best way to overcome the gravity? It takes a large amount of kWh... Hi! Jonas from Brazil > As long as it was brought up, there's a commercial mag-lev system from > Shanghai's Pudong airport to the Longyang Road metro station. It has > been operating for almost three years. The trip takes about seven > minutes at a top speed of about 270 MPH (during a test it went about 313 > MPH) and costs about $5 for ticketed air passengers. The same trip by > road took me about 45 minutes in the middle of the night with no > traffic. I note that in "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore is shown making > the trip in a chauffered limo rather than on the train. > > The line is being extended to the Shanghai South railway station, the > Expo 2010 site, and the Hongqiao airport. > > TTFN, > Mark > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.