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https://foxhugh.com/2016/05/18/can-maglevs-be-upgraded-to-vactrains/
There has been a great deal of discussion of whether the future of high tech transportation will be
maglevs or hyperloops. Hyperloops can theoretically travel around 600 mph. Maglevs can
theoretically travel around 300 mph. However there is a third alternative that is being ignored.
Theoretically if you build a vacuum tunnel around a maglev system then you create a vactrain
and can achieve theoretical speeds of up to 8,000 mph. Vactrains could more or less ten times
faster than hyperloops! China, Japan and Germany have already invested billions of dollars on
maglev lines. Can maglev lines be retrofitted to be vactrains? Instead of replacing maglev, a
proven technology, with a new technology that is only twice as fast, maglevs can be upgraded
and be made 20 times faster! The following points provide a starting point for this discussion.
1) Pipeline Design
If maglev upgrade is the purpose of vactrain design then the pipeline probably needs to be
designed to be more modular to fit around an existing maglev.
2) Pipeline Fabrication
China is facing an industrial output surplus. Can any existing factories be modified to make
vactrain pipeline instead?