Watch: The World's Fastest Train (China)

[marmar]

Watch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/china-bullet-train-video_n_774273.html


HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- China rolled out its fastest train yet on Tuesday and announced that the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, is now generating electricity at maximum capacity -- engineering triumphs that signal the nation's growing ambitions as its economy booms.

The successes demonstrate how, after decades of acquiring technology from the west, Beijing has begun to push the limits of its new capabilities, setting the bar higher on mega-projects as it seeks to promote the image of a powerful, modern China. But many of these initiatives have come at great human and environmental cost, and some have questioned whether the country fosters a sufficiently innovative spirit to compete on the next level.

Still in the works: more nuclear power plants, a gargantuan project to pump river water from the fertile south to the arid north, and a $32.5 billion, 820-mile (1,300-kilometer) Beijing-to-Shanghai high-speed railway that is scheduled to open in 2012.

"We are now much faster," Railway Ministry spokesman Wang Yongping said at Tuesday's inauguration of the super-fast line from Shanghai's western suburb of Hongqiao to the resort city of Hangzhou. "Now other countries are hoping to cooperate with us." .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/china-bullet-train-video_n_774273.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Where are our high speed trains - why are we so behind?

I know Obama has been trying to get these but why are the rest of them not doing it?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. The airline industry, maybe?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. it is a disgrace that we are behind

[breadandwine]

8. These trains alleviate overuse of airplanes with their extra fuel use.

The faster speed competes better with airplanes and thus you come out ahead in the sense that less airplanes are used with their greater fuel in getting off the ground.

But we in America must not do that because GOVERNMENT STINKS!


Look how gleaming, beautiful and modern this is ----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LnmxJVPmZc&feature=related


This video report says China invested 108 billion Yuan in the train. Currently there are about 6.66 Yuan to the US dollar. So China spent the equivalent of about $16 billion on this train line project.

But it sure is good that our old trains in America have private enterprise!

Why do we have to have STINKIN government when we can have THIS instead! ----


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3GcDBjQN4


Here's the same video as linked (indirectly and via another video format) in the opening post, but here on Youtube ----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YC8vq1rgks


Stick with no government and the GOP! Vote for a Republican Congress! Government STINKS! So get your shotgun and a year's supply of canned goods and go live in the woods with a nice, clean, odorless outhouse!


Stinkin government.........

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. I love trains!

[opihimoimoi]

4. The Obstinate GOP is stifling our advancement.......sad but true...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG8quu2sQ2Y&feature=related

we could be at the Party...instead we dumpster dive,,,,,

[DCKit]

5. "...after decades of acquiring technology from the west..."

Yeah, 'cause the Chinese are so backward, ignorant and only recently discovered.

I get the same feeling when I read stories of astounding archeological discoveries in those areas where "savages" ruled.

[Parker CA]

6. We're watching the dust cloud of the future running off in front of us here in the US. Truly sad. nt

[marmar]

7. It is truly sad. Feels like the world is passing us by.