[opendtv] Re: Mag-lev

  • From: "negrjp" <negrjp@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:32:29 -0300

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
> 
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