I would propose magnetic travel . . . in vacuum tunnels. This would create the world's fastest and most futuristic transportation system. Propulsion by magnetics is not new. Such transit systems are called maglev (mag for magnetic and lev for levitation). Magnets are used to create both lift and propulsion. The world's fastest commercial train is a maglev train in Shanghai (China leads the world in so many things, so this should not surprise us) that goes 270 mph. The energy to lift the train is not great, but the energy to overcome drag is significant.
So, why not take away the drag? I don't even know if total evacuation of air can be achieved in a tunnel, but it seems we should be able to come close.
Now, we have further advanced the creation I suggested yesterday. I suggested vacuum tunnels crisscrossing the state. We could have one reaching from Logan to St. George, another from Tremonton to Blanding, another from Wendover to Vernal, and another from St. George to Green River.
Vacuum tunnels. Vacuum travel.
And, I'm not talking trains. Magnetic travel may not be new, what with the maglev trains, but I do not know that it has been applied to the everyday automobile.
As the cars pulled up to one of our border locations, each would be sealed airtight into a pod, slipped into the vacuum tunnel, and sent sailing across the state. Of all the journeying across our great nation, no portion of the journey would be so exciting as the trip across Utah.
People would come to our state just for the experience of traveling across it.
If we are to create the fastest transportation system possible, vacuum travel must be utilized. And, a magnetic system seems the best choice of propulsion.
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