Evacuated Tube Transport could take you to China in two hours

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Wouldn't you be able to do the same thing without the tubes. Just magnatized rings pushing and pulling from their polarities? Tube part is a little overkill unless you cant control the forces any other way.

3-30-2012 @ 6:46AM

Carpe said...

How do you propose an unenclosed system of rings will be able to create the airless environment needed for the frictionless travel in order to reach those speeds? It sounds like what you've described is closer to a maglev which is already in operation.

3-30-2012 @ 9:10AM

Bruce Coburn said...

Yeh Carpe I just assumed that by using the repelling forces you could use that to create the forces to move the cars. I am not a physicist and will never claim to be, that class was not my best. As for the tubes they described as not being evacuated because of the air but because they were hollow. I get if they are creating an entirely closed system. Thanks for the comment.

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