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Re:China unveils 600 kph maglev train by thehappypm on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:59PM (#27897009)
I wonder if you could beam power to an airplane instead, or maybe even have a low-flying airplane touch electrical wires. An airplane with no battery -- solves a lot of the Maglev problems.
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Re:China unveils 600 kph maglev train by bluGill on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:20PM (#27897284)
Touching electrical wires is the limit to existing HSR - you can only go so fast before you run into problems. I don't know if they can be engineered out.

I don't know if beaming power is practical. Tesla was working on it long before we were born.

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