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Dream Boat
100
What was the first Shinkansen to ever commercially open in Japan.
What is the Tokaido 0 Series.
100
How many out of every ten ships in the world is built in Japan?
What is two
100
What is one of the more interesting ways to reduce friction from seawater?
What is blowing bubbles from bow to stern.
100
What is the longest tunnel ever?
What is the tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido.
100
When is the Dream Boat estimated to come out?
When is 2030.
200
What makes the Shinkansen trains be able to go so fast.
What is a superconducting linear motor.
200
What was the largest car carrier made in japan, and how many cars did it hold?
What is about 200 meters and 6,400 cars.
200
What is a way to reduce wind resistance on large boats?
What is a hemispheric bow.
200
What is the name of the route connecting Osaka with Okayama?
What is the San'yo route.
200
How much fuel emissions - compared to today's average car carrier - would the Dream Boat cut down when it comes out?
What is 69%.
300
How do the maglev train tracks work?
What are electromagnets in the train and in the sidewalls of the track.
300
About how much emissions do boats around the world produce?
What is about 1.05 billion tons of CO2.
300
What was the Emerald Ace's way of fuel efficiency?
What is solar power.
300
When did the Nagano route (Takasaki to Nagano) open, and why?
What was 1997 for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games.
300
How many interchangeable fuel cells would the Dream Boat have?
What is 16.
400
How does a superconducting linear motor get made in the first place?
What is a special metal cooled to -269 degrees celsius.
400
1.05 billion tons of CO2 = how much of global emissions?
What is 3.3%
400
What are some strategies being worked on to help with seawater resistance?
What is water repelling paint, modeled after the skin of the lotus flower.
400
How long does it take to go from Tokyo to Hachinohe, a distance of 632 kilometers (about 392.7 miles)
What is 2 hours, 56 minutes.
400
How the Dream Boat charge its batteries on its journeys?
What solar panels.
500
When the Chou Shinkansen - a maglev train - becomes commercially available (estimated 2013) how long will it take to go from Tokyo to Nagoya?
What is 40 min.
500
What is the record of the speed of a maglev train? Audience? Guess? Estimate?
What is 581km/hr or about 361m/hr
500
What is another possible way to reduce ships weight to cut down on fuel consumption?
What is carbon fiber (the type of material used on airplanes).
500
Why was the arrival of shinkansen when it was, and not about a year later?
What are the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
500
What will help the Dream Boat be propelled through the water - aside from its motor.
What are wind cupping masts.