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Who will win the technology race: VacMagLev, or hypersonic planes? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to travel around the world in three hours, who is gonna get me there first?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hypersonic passenger flight has some serious weaknesses. I'm not sure it will ever make sense when there's billions of people who need to be served and a finite planetary energy budget.

I could see billionaires doing it, and in theory they could even manage it in a green way (but don't hold your breath). Most Lemmings don't like the world working like that, though, and it's not really in the spirit of comparing it to municipal transport.