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So 200m long cars, given that there are four in a train of that mass from TFA? I suppose it's not inconceivable, but it seems weird to be re-inventing the railw
by madaxe_again 11y ago
So 200m long cars, given that there are four in a train of that mass from TFA? I suppose it's not inconceivable, but it seems weird to be re-inventing the railway carriage format.
Also, having a long train is surely undesirable for this application, unless you have a plateau at the top and bottom at least as long as the train.
- secabeen 11y agoIf you look at the video, they have a neat system where the mass is stored perpendicular to the rails in the storage yard, then cars come in, pick up the masses, rotate them parallel to the rail for transport, then re-rotate them back to perpendicular for storage at the other end.
- dragontamer 11y agoThat's probably how they'd scale. It looks like they're just going to be moving the trains up/down the slope.