2024-03-05 12:00:05
China recently announced a remarkable feat in hyperloop transportation: its magnetic levitation train, nicknamed the T-Flight, broke the world speed record during a test, reaching 623 km/h.
This project, led by China Aerospace Science (Science (Latin scientia, “knowledge”) is, according to the dictionary…) and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a state-owned enterprise, does not intend to stop there. Designers aspire to develop a train (A train is a guided vehicle running on rails. A train is made up of…) capable of exceeding the mur (A wall is a solid structure that separates or demarcates two spaces.) sound, with vitesse (On distingue 🙂 peak speed projected at 2,000 km/h, surpassing airliners in Cruising speed (The cruising speed of an aircraft is the speed corresponding to the speed of the…).
Credit: CASIC
Hyperloop trains, a technology first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013, work by propelling capsules to levitation (Levitation is the act, for a being or an object, of moving or remaining in…) magnetic through tunnels where the resistance of theair (Air is the mixture of gases constituting the Earth’s atmosphere. It is odorless and…) is reduced to a minimum. To reach such speeds, the T-Flight operates in a low-speed tube. pression (Pressure is a fundamental physical concept. It can be seen as a reported force…), where friction is almost non-existent. The test track, almost 2 kilometers (The meter (symbol m, from the Greek metron, measurement) is the basic unit of length of the System…)was specially designed to support this technology, with flatness and geometry (Geometry is the part of mathematics which studies the figures of space…) extremely precise.
Ambition does not stop at breaking speed records. CASIC plans to extend the runway to 60 kilometers for the second phase of testing, allowing the T-Flight to reach 1,000 km/h. This hyperloop train project between Wuhan and Beijing (Beijing (or Beijing) (?? ; pinyin: B?ij?ng Listen to the pronunciation…) could significantly speed up travel to China, providing a faster alternative toplane (An airplane, according to the official definition of the International Civil Aviation Organization…).
The previous speed record holder for a magnetic levitation train was the Japanese Shinkansen L0, with 603 km/h. Hyperloop systems, with their ability to move vehicles at speeds far greater than those of conventional trains, promise to transform the landscape (Etymologically, landscape is the arrangement of features, characters, shapes of a…) of the transports (Transport, from Latin trans, beyond, and portare, to carry, is the act of carrying something, or…) terrestrial.
This Chinese advance comes as the hyperloop industry is experiencing ups and downs, notably with the closure of Virgin Hyperloop in 2023, one of the flagship companies in the sector.
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