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It's important to factor in fuel costs for these high speed train systems. While the drag of steel wheels on steel rail is pretty low, it's still present, and it takes a lot of power to overcome it at 500 km/h. Is there an energy use comparison handy?
by asdf on Tue Sep 26th, 2006 at 10:54:54 PM EST

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