China Opens World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line

[jay_nar2012]

Britain still use the Imperial system most of the time.

 

[halcyon]

How does it hurt US citizens to use the older system when converters are widely available in the event they need them? That's a real question...my coffee hasn't quite infiltrated yet this AM.

 

[drwho1]

Amtrak stops at Miami, FL, still a long way from Key West...

 

[jay_nar2012]

Lets just say that China made a rail line that reduces the amount of time to travel from one distant place to another by making a train that accelerates to 186MPH, using either electric motors and gears or the maglev system.

Compared to normal trains that travel at 50-100MPH.

 

[Soda-88]

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]Who cares about Canada? (aside from you/Canadians)The reason Toms should use the metric system is that the modern world uses the metric system, not because of Canada. The USA uses an ancient system that should have been scrapped a long time ago.Now I need to rant at Google. I typed "186 mph in kmph" and Google returned "did you mean 186 mph in kph"? Umm excuse me Google, are you stupid? kph? What the hell is that? Kilo's per hour? Last I checked, the symbol for kilometers was km. Use kmph you foolish Google.[/citation]
Maybe you should've tried searching for mph to km/h - the official unit symbol.

 

[neblogai]

[citation][nom]jay_nar2012[/nom]186 MPH =299 KMH 1,428 miles = 2,298 kilometers.1 mile = 1.6 km.[/citation]

It is obvious that original article had metric units.

 

[MisterZ]

You haven't taken into consideration the traveling to and from airports.

Yes, I have taken that into consideration, because you have to travel to and from a train station as well. You think the train takes you to your front door?

 

[Guest]

Maybe you should care about the Canadians, those are Canadian trains they're talking of

 

[Sumukh_Bhagat]

This will not last long
As Chinese Items don't last long.... :lol:

 

[halcyon]

^ How do you figure? I (non-Asian) have lots of made-in-China items that seem like they've lasted forever.

 

[garrick]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]correct me if im wrong, but china hired a japanese firm to help plan and build it, fired them, stole the designs, than made it themselves, when it crashed, they buried it in a mass grave...i have to say with that track record i would never get in a moving train in china.[/citation]
Yes they blatantly stole the design of the trains from Japan and claimed the Chinese came up with the designs.
They also had a deadly train crash on their non high speed rail systems that same year I believe.
No high tech company should ever invest in Chinese infrastructure unless there is a fool proof way that your designs won't be counterfeited and rebranded as Chinese.
They even have the audacity to market their new bullet trains to the world now and are trying to offer a cheaper high speed rail system to overseas markets....

 

[bluekoala]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]What? you couldn't give us metric considering that you guys KNOW that a large chunk of us are canadian? Come on toms. No canadian contests and this, we want our own canadian site.[/citation]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/
Just saying.

 

[bluekoala]

[citation][nom]jay_nar2012[/nom]Lets just say that China made a rail line that reduces the amount of time to travel from one distant place to another by making a train that accelerates to 186MPH, using either electric motors and gears or the maglev system.Compared to normal trains that travel at 50-100MPH.[/citation]

Name me a train in service today that doesn't use electric motors. With the exception of touristic attraction steam engines and perhaps the rare short line operator diesel, all trains use electric motors.

 

[halcyon]

This is neat and all but I want to read about trains that can do 350MPH. Surely some engineer somewhere is working on this.

 

[jay_nar2012]

[citation][nom]bluekoala[/nom]Name me a train in service today that doesn't use electric motors. With the exception of touristic attraction steam engines and perhaps the rare short line operator diesel, all trains use electric motors.[/citation]

Diesel locomotives don't use electric motors.

 

[Dax corrin]

Diesel locomotives burn diesel fuel to turn generators to create the electricity needed to run the electric motors.

 

[phillipw]

"Diesel locomotives don't use electric motors."

Sure they do. The diesel engine is used to turn HUGE generators (alternators) to power the elecric motors they use. Most...if not all modern diesel locomotives, are hybrids.

 

[jay_nar2012]

Diesel engines can also be used to move the train, anyway when did i ever say trains never use electric or linear motors?

 

[Cazalan]

China is smart. They spend their money on infrastructure, USA spends their money on never ending wars.

Infrastructure supports economic growth.

 

[Guest]

It's going to provide probably another $1 trillion each year to the domestic Chinese economy without having to grow exports to get there. Practically a first. With car commuting times increasing in the US and ridiculous luggage fees at the airports a high speed train network is a definite investment in the future growth.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]What? you couldn't give us metric considering that you guys KNOW that a large chunk of us are canadian? Come on toms. No canadian contests and this, we want our own canadian site.[/citation]

Then become an entrepreneur and create one. Why is it up to United States' companies to cater to Canadians? It's bad enough we fight terrorism for you, now you want us to make your websites too?

 

[bloc97]

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]Who cares about Canada? (aside from you/Canadians)The reason Toms should use the metric system is that the modern world uses the metric system, not because of Canada. The USA uses an ancient system that should have been scrapped a long time ago.Now I need to rant at Google. I typed "186 mph in kmph" and Google returned "did you mean 186 mph in kph"? Umm excuse me Google, are you stupid? kph? What the hell is that? Kilo's per hour? Last I checked, the symbol for kilometers was km. Use kmph you foolish Google.[/citation]
Even with your little idiotic insult, I have to admit you are right about the KPH thing... It is either KMPH or KM/H, but most of people use KM/H since KMPH can be confused as "1000 MPH".
Props on this, but please don't insult a whole race like that... I'm Canadian.
-Bloc97

 

[chewbie]

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]Who cares about Canada? (aside from you/Canadians)The reason Toms should use the metric system is that the modern world uses the metric system, not because of Canada. The USA uses an ancient system that should have been scrapped a long time ago.Now I need to rant at Google. I typed "186 mph in kmph" and Google returned "did you mean 186 mph in kph"? Umm excuse me Google, are you stupid? kph? What the hell is that? Kilo's per hour? Last I checked, the symbol for kilometers was km. Use kmph you foolish Google.[/citation]
try km/h genius

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]...i have to say with that track record i would never get in a moving train in china.[/citation]
I would never get in a moving train anywhere. I wait for them to stop before I get in.

 

[JonnyDough]

High speed magnetic levitation is the future of travel. Cars are the past. China has 1-upped us.