http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/About 621 mph]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
Although it is written as km/h no kph.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=1000+kph+to+mph]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
That's FAST.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/We may never know.]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/If you're in a train going faster than Mach 1 and you stick your head outside of a window and yell would you be able to hear yourself?]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/You'd be able to hear your neck snap when you stick your head out, does that count?]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
I bet if they built this in the US, someone would still get hit by it, even inside a vacuum.]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Let's just say it can make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.

]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/that's like a flight from SFO to LAX in about an hour.]]>Aug 5th 2010 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Lol well then in theory if you could withstand the forces any idea what would happen?]]>Aug 5th 2010 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
fail, the term is US customary form]]>Aug 5th 2010 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/any way you look at it that will be a true bullet train !]]>Aug 5th 2010 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
The rest of world using meter. Only you idiot say it is ridiculous.]]>Aug 5th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
It's like one Japanese commenter on another website I read said: "Who wants to bet when the first case of passenger's internal organs rupturing occurs?"]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Hi,

I've read about this kind of train line before and the idea is more practical than you might realise:
1) you don't need absolute vacuum. You just need to make the air inside the tube less dense than normal to get an improvement. The better you do that, the easier it will be for your train to gain speed.
2) the vacuum tube is essentially an tunnel as airtight as possible with big pumps sucking out the air. It takes a lot of energy (and makes noise?) but it certainly is not unachievable, for China or others.]]>Aug 5th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
KIRF train?]]>Aug 5th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
2.9 mil more per kilometer. But that's not that much when you think about it, probably 10-20% more than they would spend.]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/I just hope that these train tracks are more comprehensive than the mag lev train in Shanghai-that whole project got bogged down by people not wanting a crazy fast train near them so where the train station had to be ended up getting farther and farther out of Shanghai so that you have to take a cab to get to the train to get to the airport. Still very cool to go that fast though but on such a short track it's hard to spend much time at the top speed since you spend a lot of time accelerating and then by the time you hit peak speed you have to start braking since you can't really slam the brakes from 1000kph without making everyone's brains bleed. ]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/where id your 188B came from?

Lets say they probably need around 6000 mi for start, then it'll cost them 28.5+ billion dollars. I'd say that's chump change for them, drop in a bucket. Considering we (da USA) own then over 2 trillions dollars. They can just ring up Timothy for it. If anything, we (The US tax payers) ARE paying for their maglev train.]]>Aug 5th 2010 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
Spend a lot of time accelerating? Umm airplanes go at around that speed too, you realize that? Anyway, I doubt they would need to spend more than 3 minutes accelerating .. if that. It can actually be done in one minute without discomfort. Motorcycles cars can go 0 to 60 miles per hours (about 100 kph) in under 3 seconds, and most cars get to 100 kilometers per hour in under 7 seconds without discomfort to passengers .
]]>Aug 5th 2010 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Chu Chu Rocket ;)]]>Aug 5th 2010 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 5th 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
They would probably start with 600 miles, at most.. it's 600miles from beijing to shanghai, and 2500miles from sf to nyc. 6000 is whopping too much for a starting point!]]>Aug 5th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
We don't own 2 trillion dollars to China. The 2 trillion is the total foreign debt outside the US. We (USA) owes 867.8 billion dollars and growing. Please, strengthen your facts. Actually we don't paying for their maglev system its their prerogative to modernize the PRC rail network. If we balance our imports stuff from them and stop the US financing of its debt. We won't B!cth about it.

On the other hand, 1000km/h is possible but not sustainable. PRC can develop it achieving that speed but what about safety and comfort. Thats why Japan didn't go for higher top speed, just for a breaking record.
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Our city just built a new 70km rail line (of course we had to realign highways and build new stations) for something like AU$1.6bn dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandurah_railway_line,_Perth]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/Aug 4th 2010 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/chinas-maglev-trains-to-hit-1-000kph-in-three-years-doc-brown/
Current 430km/h High-Speed Train cost RMB$50 only. ]]>Aug 4th 2010 11:49PM