Brandon JonesAug 2, 2023

Watching the scramble to figure out if LK-99 is an Actual Thing™ is fun, but I'm hearing comments like "If it's real it'll mean high-speed trains everywhere!"

My dude, we could ALREADY have high-speed trains everywhere. The resistance in the wires isn't the thing that's blocking it from happening.

Show threadMr. Rustbot
@tojiro The cost of cooling the tracks to negative 450 F / the exotic materials needed aren't big factors in large scale adoption of maglev?
Aug 3, 2023 at 2:33pmWeb
Show threadBrandon JonesAug 3, 2023
@mr_rustbot Maybe for other countries it'll mean the difference between "fast trains" and "faster trains". But in the US we're still wrestling with "why trains when you could cars?"