100 Percent ELECTRIC POWERED Ultralight

[auroraglacialis]

Yes indeed - the costs are astronomical to replace an entire network of transportation. Especially if it is not an upgrade (like adding overhead cables or a third rail to a regular railway). In Germany, they replaced some of the major lines with new rails to get the high speed trains running, that was already a major investment, presently making travelling by rail more expensive than driving a car, even at gasoline prices of 1.70EU/liter. But at least they could use existing railway lines and add to that. For maglev the building costs for a kilometer of rail is multiple times that for a high speed regular electric rail. I think the line that was proposed to run from Munich airport to Munich central station (about 20-30 km I think) was calculated to cost several billion Euros already. Now think of building that from Munich to Frankfurt, to Hamburg, Berlin and the Ruhrcity. I dont think they would do it - maybe if they would use all the money they give away to the banks in the past months, they could do it for Germany. But that still is pale in comparison to a maglev train tunnel at 2000m below the ocean surface and all the way across the atlantic.

[Niri Te]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

Yes indeed - the costs are astronomical to replace an entire network of transportation. Especially if it is not an upgrade (like adding overhead cables or a third rail to a regular railway). In Germany, they replaced some of the major lines with new rails to get the high speed trains running, that was already a major investment, presently making travelling by rail more expensive than driving a car, even at gasoline prices of 1.70EU/liter. But at least they could use existing railway lines and add to that. For maglev the building costs for a kilometer of rail is multiple times that for a high speed regular electric rail. I think the line that was proposed to run from Munich airport to Munich central station (about 20-30 km I think) was calculated to cost several billion Euros already. Now think of building that from Munich to Frankfurt, to Hamburg, Berlin and the Ruhrcity. I dont think they would do it - maybe if they would use all the money they give away to the banks in the past months, they could do it for Germany. But that still is pale in comparison to a maglev train tunnel at 2000m below the ocean surface and all the way across the atlantic.

It is refreshing to see that someone else is not looking for magical quick solutions to our transportation pollution problems that are absolutely out in dreamland, financially speaking but looking at logical, step by step paths that can slowly get us to where we need to be atmospherically. An under the Atlantic maglev could not be afforded by all the economy's of this planet combined, one across the Pacific, would be even MORE outrageous. You want to have a very fast positive effect on air pollution? Ban ALL burning of Coal Planet wide, effective IMMEDIATELY.
Niri Te