A enquiry team in China just successfully tested a blisteringly flying transferral concept : super - maglev , a high speed geartrain that could theoretically off speeds of up to 1,800 miles per hour . That ’s three times the speed of a passenger jet .
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The concept , put forth by the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University , uses the same proficiency proposed forElon Musk ’s Hyperloop : launch the train inside a vacuum electron tube , removing air resistance and enabling super high speeds uninhibited by confidential information resistance . Research show that , for fomite traveling quicker than 250 MPH , up to 83 percent of the energy used goes toward fighting flowing resistance .
But with a ( highly theoretical ) top speed of 1,800 MPH , super - maglev would muck up the door off of Musk ’s 300 MPH trains . That ’s because the string inside the Evacuated Tube Transport loop only encounters one one-tenth of the melody resistance of the international surround .
Dr. Deng Zigang , who led the projection , envisions applications beyond land - based transportation . He purport similar vacancy tube-shaped structure applied science could be used to launch vehicles into outer space , or enable super eminent hurrying for military weapon .
Of naturally , this is all Proto-Indo European - in - the - sky imagination talk justly now — Dr. Zigang ’s test fomite , running inside a 20 - foot diameter vacancy loop , top out at a very footer 30 MPH . But as research continue at the university ’s mellow - temperature superconducting magnetic levitation halo , Dr. Zigang and his team hope to labour that top f number manner , right smart higher .
It sounds like , theoretically at least , the race is on . [ The Daily MailviaPhysOrg ]
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