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Thailand needs hyperloop, not China-built high-speed rail says Thanathorn
Thailand needs hyperloop, not China-built high-speed rail says Thanathorn
- Who is Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and what Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit do?
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has criticised the government's $5.6 billion high-speed rail project with China, arguing that hyperloop technology offers a more modern alternative
- What is better for Thailand as it would help the nation to be a technological leader?
An option such as Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One -- which is working on building networks of pods traveling at airplane-like speeds
- What Mr Thanathorn said in an interview on Monday?
If you invest in high-speed trains, all you do is import everything from abroad, whereas with the hyperloop there’s an opportunity to build the industry in Thailand if you move first.
- What the military government, in power since a coup more than four years ago do?
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- What Mr Thanathorn argued?
hyperloop technology can create more local jobs, as well as being environmentally friendlier and cheaper to build
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But it’s our duty to propose new ideas. We need to dream big to get Thailand out of the middle-income trap.
- What Thailand’s military government has focused on?
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- What few firms and investors have been and what thing that unlike bullet trains?
ploughing money into the race for the first working hyperloop system since futurist billionaire Elon Musk first theorised a model in 2013
unlike
bullet trains, the technology has yet to be deployed for everyday use.
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is planning three production systems in service by 2021, according to its website