{"id":5511,"date":"2014-11-11T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2014\/11\/frictionless-maglev-for-transportation.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T03:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T03:47:47","slug":"frictionless-maglev-for-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2014\/11\/frictionless-maglev-for-transportation.html","title":{"rendered":"Frictionless Maglev for transportation that is 50 times more efficient than Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nextbigfuture has covered vacuum tube transportation (ET3) before<\/a> and also covered low pressure tube transportation.<\/p>\n

Evacuated Tube Transport Technology is magnetically levitated capsules in vacuum tubes.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Propulsion energy required is 100,000 times less than required by a car
\nET3 will achieve 50 times more transportation per kWh (or ton of CO2) than electric cars or trains.
\nThe cost is ten times less. They calculate they can build an ET3 system for about $7 million per mile.<\/p>\n

ET3 Progress<\/b><\/p>\n

ET3 has been awarded two recent patents. One is for the system and<\/A> another patent is for the interchange methods.<\/A> There was an original patent in 1999. <\/p>\n

ET3 is speaking with various companies in China and South Korea.<\/p>\n

Description of the system<\/b><\/p>\n

ET3 is \u201cSpace Travel on Earth\u201d where car sized passenger capsules travel in 1.5m (5′) diameter tubes on frictionless maglev (magnetic levitated vehicle). Air is permanently removed from the two-way tubes that are built along a travel route. Airlocks at portals allow transfer of capsules without admitting air. Linear electric motors accelerate the capsules, which then coast through the vacuum for the remainder of the trip using no additional power. Most of the energy is regenerated as the capsules slow down where kinetic energy of the capsule is converted to electric power with a linear electric generator<\/p>\n