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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.

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  1. math by wwmedia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can someone do the mats how many miles of maglev can we built across america for a similar amount thats spent in Iraq so far?

    1. Re:math by wwmedia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      hmm spell check turned off again ^^ sorry! i am gonna get ripped by the grammar brigade

  2. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not a troll, actually is quite interesting. Very deep.

  3. Why modded troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you actually looked at what the guy said, and what he linked to? It makes a lot of sense.

  4. Re:Power consumption? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What slashdot needs is a 'goatse/tubgirl/...' moderation label.