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Re:Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions? by derefr on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:20PM (#22518831)
If they were willing to retool, you’d think they’d just go with a maglev monorail design. Those have the capacity for the instantaneous acceleration of a railgun.
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Re:Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions? by DFHippie on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:25PM (#22518869)
That would be a pretty rough ride. I wouldn't want to be a straphanger on one of those. The turns would be uncomfortable as well in a railgun railway car.
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Re:Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions? by roywiggins on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:36PM (#22518935)
It would also be useless, the stations are so dense that you would barely increase the average speed.
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Re:Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions? by derefr on Sunday March 08, 2020 @01:42PM (#22519334)
I didn’t mean to suggest you’d use it as a railgun. It just has the capacity for exactly as much torque as you need from it at any given moment.
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