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China, Japan co-Developing an ‘Aerotrain’ with Wings

posted by mrpg on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the magfly dept.

Anonymous Cow Herd writes:

[...] "When the train cruises at its optimal speed of 500 km/h, the energy it consumes is roughly one third of that of current high-speed trains in commercial service and one sixth of the maglev trains," according to Lai.

The new design of an annular spoiler is one of the highlights of the novel aerotrain. Different from the traditional, vertical spoilers which tend to produce unstable airflow, the annular spoiler can increase the lift-drag ratio by 30% to 40%.'

Source: China, Japan co-developing an 'aerotrain' with wings

Meanwhile, in California's Silicon Valley, recruiters - from across the country, with broken English skills - are trying to force everyone to work as a temporary employee, for hourly wages last seen - by everyone except H1-Bs - in the 1990s.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday April 26 2018, @05:40PM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday April 26 2018, @05:40PM (#672219) Journal

    The whole train seems like a wind tunnel exercise to me, done by people with no clue about trains. "Flying above the rails" it says in TFA.
    Made out of magnesium. Righto. That stuff is cheap, yup.

    Then there is the whole tacking on of totally unrelated story with no links on the end of TFS. Whats up with that?

    Almost like Anonymous Cow Herd was trying to sneak another Gewg_ story in with a hook, but forgetting the payload.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:44PM (#672310)

    Russia, China and North Korea happen to be the places with the largest reserves of magnesium.

    Moo!

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    • (Score: 2) by Virindi on Friday April 27 2018, @01:36AM

      by Virindi (3484) on Friday April 27 2018, @01:36AM (#672422)

      Sweet. Do they also build train cars out of diamonds in South Africa? :D

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:53PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:53PM (#672313)

    Seriously, how boring. Let me know when you've got a bus with whiskers and a tail [google.com].