Canadian train-plane ‘hybrid' that can go 620 miles per hour

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Flux capacitors:

This Canadian company wants to build a train-plane ‘hybrid' that can go 620 miles per hour—take a look

Toronto-based TransPod says FluxJet is "a hybrid between an aircraft and a train" that would be faster and cheaper to travel between cities than an airplane.

www.cnbc.com

 

[MARC Rider]

Flux capacitors:

This Canadian company wants to build a train-plane ‘hybrid' that can go 620 miles per hour—take a look

Toronto-based TransPod says FluxJet is "a hybrid between an aircraft and a train" that would be faster and cheaper to travel between cities than an airplane.

www.cnbc.com

Just another hyerloop gadgetbahnen. But the promoters managed to get investors to sink $550 million into the turkey. How can I get rich people to give me $550 million? Or even 1% of that.

 

[cirdan]

whoever wrote that article might have done well to run it past a physics teacher.

would involve 82-foot-long, magnetically levitated trains that would carry passengers at roughly 621 miles per hour ... how much more precise than 621 mph do you want to get?

the train would pull power from the existing electric grid through magnetic fields ... psst, magnetic fields don't transmit power, you need electromagnetic fields for that. And if you really wanted to pull that power from the existing electric grid, I guess the line would need to run in extreme close proximity to existing power lines, no?