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Perhaps this could be solved by having the planes run at ground level, using some sort of guideway, and using either the guideway itself or overhead wires to tr
by lambdaone 2y ago
Perhaps this could be solved by having the planes run at ground level, using some sort of guideway, and using either the guideway itself or overhead wires to transmit the power by direct contact?
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- ChuckMcM 2y agoThat would never work! :-)
- orson2077 2y agoThey looked into this concept a while back and came to the conclusion that unless the population density was great enough along the guideway, the maintenance cost was too high.
- lambdaone 2y agoThe U.S. seems to be able to maintain a quite impressive railroad system for freight purposes, in what is still the largest rail transport network of any country in the world. Passenger transport withered away as long-distance road travel and cheap air flights out-competed it. With sufficient ingenuity and capital expenditure, I wonder if perhaps it could be revived?
- OldManAndTheCpp 2y agoYeah, trains don’t run over the ocean.
- wongarsu 2y agoThis proposal doesn't either. Unless you are at a strait less than 200km wide. You could hop over the English channel, but if you want to go LA to London you have to take the long way around over the Bering strait.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoThey could. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel
- xandrius 2y agoNo way, that's just for filthy plebs. Us elites need to find the coolest way to move our bodies to places to meet other like-minded elites.