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   Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:15 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

   There's no agenda in posting this video

   Just some simple human joy at efficient #publictransportation

   Ok, ok... just a small agenda

   Year: unknown, location: #Japan

   Possibly related to this:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen

   #trains #shinkansen #bullettrain #maglev #train

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:13 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     • Chuck Darwin

     @cdarwin

     {hat tip}

     this part from the wikipedia article blew my mind:

     "About 90% of the 286-kilometer (178 mi) line to Nagoya will be tunnels."

     got dang!

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:13 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Chuck Darwin

     @benroyce @cdarwin Almost would have to be. I imagine the consequences of things getting onto the track area and hitting a train would be high.

     Curious is this is the test track and if it is, is it long enough for the train to be brought up to full speed?

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     Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:27:14 JST Chuck Darwin

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     The Chuo Shinkansen is the culmination of Japanese maglev development since the 1970s,
     a government-funded project initiated by Japan Airlines and the former Japanese National Railways (JNR).

     Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) now operates the facilities and research.

     The line is intended to extend and incorporate the existing Yamanashi test track.

     The trainsets are popularly known in Japan as linear motor car
     (リニアモーターカー, rinia mōtā kā),
     though there are many technical variations.

     Government permission to proceed with construction was granted on 27 May 2011.

     Construction is expected to cost over ¥9 trillion (approximately 82 billion USD)
     and commenced in 2014.

     The start date of commercial service is unknown, after Shizuoka Prefecture denied permission for construction work on a portion of the route in June 2020.

     JR Central originally aimed to begin commercial service between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027.

     However, in 2024, Central Japan Railway Co President Shunsuke Niwa said that due to construction delays a 2027 opening was now impossible
     and it is not expected to open until at least 2034.

     The Nagoya–Osaka section was planned to be completed as late as 2045,
     but the date was moved to as early as 2037 following a loan from the Japanese government.

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     Filip Lachert he/him (filiplachert@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:30:57 JST Filip Lachert he/him

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     • Chuck Darwin
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage test tracks are usually circles @benroyce @cdarwin

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:34:05 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     • Chuck Darwin
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage @cdarwin

     no argument, but the cost must be insane

     apparently there are only test runs so far. i would speculate by the crowd it might be:

     "On 2 December 2003, MLX01, a three-car train set a world record speed of 581 km/h (361 mph) in a manned run

     ...

     On 26 October 2010, JR Central announced a new train type, the L0 Series, for commercial operation at 505 km/h (314 mph).[53] It set a world record speed for a manned train of 603 km/h (375 mph) on 21 April 2015.[54]"

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:39:06 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Chuck Darwin

     @benroyce @cdarwin I've seen the Eurostar at St Pancras and taken the express down to Dover Priory to see Dover Castle, but that is nowhere near as fast.

     Fastest I've ever seen a train go was on my visit to China in 2008, but that was still nowhere close to this fast. I think it was like 180mph or thereabouts.

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:40:40 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     • Chuck Darwin
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage @cdarwin

     apparently china is building even faster trains

     at one time world cities competed to build taller towers

     but here we see a rivalry in "who has the fastest train"

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:46:39 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Chuck Darwin

     @benroyce @cdarwin And fast matters. If you can build something that can equal or near equal the speed of a jet and uses only electricity, which can at least in theory be produced from 100% renewables, that is an incredible technical achievement and a big step towards a modern lifestyle that is consistent with permaculture values. It's a "have your cake and eat it too" sort of win. Right now very few people are willing to not eat cake in order to keep the planet from getting baked.

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:50:42 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     • Chuck Darwin
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage @cdarwin

     why spend $10 on a lightbulb that last forever

     when you can spend $1 on a lightbulb that lasts 1 year?

     (/s)

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:54:59 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Chuck Darwin

     @deightonrobbie @benroyce @cdarwin One way or another, we'll find out.

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     Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux: (deightonrobbie@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 16:55:00 JST Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux:

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     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage
     Is such fast travel really consistent with permaculture values though?
     @benroyce @cdarwin