| 摘要 |
A ground-based capsule pipeline (15) is designed with greatly improved speed, energy efficiency, and cost for transportation of freight and/or people. Passive magnetic levitation is used to suspend inert, rugged capsules (10) within an air-evacuated pipeline (15), where they are propelled by a linear motor (40). Permanent magnet pole arrays (26, 28) incorporated in the capsules (10) interact with inductively-enhanced conductive loops (34) on the interior of the pipeline (15) to produce a low "take-off" speed, high lift, and a high lift-drag ratio.
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