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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by macspoofing on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:08PM (#14679319)
>the US should be doing the same with MagLev/hyperloop

In what way is hyperloop better than high-speed rail? I've never seen any credible study or report that argues it. Hyperloop also has massive unsolved (and potentially unsolvable) technical issues - like building a vacuum chamber of unprecedented size.

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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by serhei on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:32AM (#14681866)
Agreed.

The Swiss did study something similar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro) but their proposal looks a lot more expensive and is entirely in-tunnel.

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