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Maglev On the Drawing Boards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the float-like-a-butterfly dept.

longacre sends along a Popular Mechanics article on the growing interest in magnetic levitation trains in the US. It's unclear how many will actually get built here, at $100 million per track mile. (In recent years we've discussed maglev projects in China and Germany.) The article has a map of many proposed transportation projects in the US, some of them maglev, and a video of a General Atomics maglev prototype in action. On a related note, an anonymous reader recommends this article on a proposed maglev wind-power turbine, said to offer the promise of replacing 1,000 conventional wind turbines.

6 of 334 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How much is that in ... by hjf · · Score: 4, Funny

    days of war in country X/Y/Z" per track mile ?
    there, fixed it for you
  2. How do you even spend that much? by jcr · · Score: 3, Funny

    A hundred million bucks a mile? Do they have to coat the trains with moon rocks?

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  3. Re:math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nah, that'd be the spelling brigade... Watch out though, the grammar brigade will be after you for your lack of capital letters and insufficient punctuation!

  4. Well... by NickCatal · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Shelbyville and North Haverbrook can afford it we can too!

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    -nick
  5. I feel a song coming up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    - I hear those things are awfully loud...

    - It glides as softly as a cloud.

    - Is there a chance the track could bend?

    - Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

    - What about us brain-dead slobs?

    - You'll be given cushy jobs.

    - Were you sent here by the devil?

    - No, good sir, I'm on the level.

    - The ring came off my pudding can.

    - Take my pen knife, my good man.

    I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
    Throw up your hands and raise your voice!

    - Monorail!

    - What's it called?

    - Monorail!

    - Once again...

    - Monorail!

    - But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...

    - Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!

    Monorail!
    Monorail!
    Monorail!

    Monorail!

    Mono... D'oh!

  6. Re:How do you even spend that much? by eebra82 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A hundred million bucks a mile? Do they have to coat the trains with moon rocks? They build jet fighters, melt them and use it for tracks. Apparently, John Woo is involved in this project too.
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