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They were invented decades ago.

They have fewer moving parts than wheelbois.

They require less maintenance.

There's obviously some bottleneck in expanding maglev technology, but what is it?

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[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

It's more than that - doubling air resistance only doubles the energy use if it's the only inefficiency on the train (e.g., no losses in the magnets, HVAC, lighting, etc.). Add onto that the fact that you're basically eliminating rolling resistance from traditional trains when switching to maglev, and the expected outcome should be much less than double.

Finally, the most important part, each high speed rail route of any meaningful distance has the opportunity to displace a certain amount of air travel, so big picture, HSR results in a significant decrease in overall energy consumption.

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Is that factoring in the always on cooling of the magnets?

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Here's an article about the subject, paper linked at the bottom of the article: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-high-speed-pollute-percent-traditional.html

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thx, as I understand it, this is calculated for traditional railway technology and does not have anything to do with to maglev.

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