The airplane over time had been confirmed to be the fastest means of transportation on earth. But the Chinese have decided to make us have a new thought, with the manufacturing of a train that moves at a speed of 1800 mph (miles per hour) which is approximately (2,900 km/h) and this was confirmed to be three times the speed of a commercial airplane.
According to Chinese officials, the super maglev is the "future of train travel." The concept was put forward by the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University, and runs inside of a vacuum tube so that it is unaffected by wind resistance. The mega thermal superconducting maglev loop was first tested in 2013.
If the said speeds are reached, you could travel from Paris to Moscow in an hour.
The train was built with a vacuum minimize air resistance.
The Super Maglev trains use electromagnetism to lift the train off the rail and to provide propulsion. By removing the need for contact with a surface through wheels, friction is reduced to the lowest minimum and speed can be increased. They are also smoother to ride than surface-supported alternatives and are less affected by the weather.
The idea of running a maglev train in a vacuum, therefore, seems a logical one. It would increase its potential top speed and improve its energy efficiency. This principle is the same as the one that the Evacuated Tube Transport is based, which could theoretically transport people between new York and Beijing in 2 hours.
According to D. Deng Zigang, "the second phase is to cover the ring line with an evacuation tube (ET), which is called the ET HTS Maglev. The train was designed to accelerate to a maximum speed of 50 kilometers (30 miles) per hour without passengers." He explains that the speed of the prototype is limited by the diameter of the track.
In developing the train, Zigang first had to create a small, remote-controlled ring-line version of the system on which the maglev vehicle could accelerate to 15 mph (25 km/h). That was achieved in February last year, after which an evacuation tube was added to create an internal vacuum.
With the vacuum created, the vehicle was reportedly able to accelerate to a maximum speed of 30 mph (50 km/h). The prototype was, of course, run without passenger and was limited by the small 6 m (20 ft) radius of the ring guide way.
Indeed a train can be faster than an airplane. If transportation by rail is agreed to be safer than transportation by air, and now the super maglev train has been said to travel three times the speed of an airplane. Don't you think traveling on a super maglev train if made available in a limited quantity world wide, will be a better alternative to air travel?
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