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Thought this was amazing: $20 for a one-way, 35 minute trip from SF to LA.
Airline tickets would be pretty cheap if all they were paying was the 20-year amortized capital cost of the airplanes + airports, too.
There are not earthquakes in Brazil and the length should be around 500km. It seems like a better candidate than SF-LA.
just saying,
The main reason why air travel continues to be the most practical, cost-effective means of high-speed transport is that the politics involved in connecting two points with a transit system are enough to make you lose faith in humanity. Take for instance, the DC metro system. There is an expansion underway to extend the system west to Dulles Airport, about 30 miles or so from downtown DC. A huge project, no doubt, but…
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Same thing that happens if you develop unexpected gastric issues during a 30 minute plane flight, I'd imagine, since you'd spend the whole time strapped in for take-off and then landing.
I'm pretty sure in this case they would let you go to the bathroom.
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Well, there's a low grade vacuum outside so you probably don't want to. It's a failure of the onboard steam tanks that scares me. ("The steam is stored onboard until reaching the station. Water and steam tanks are changed automatically at each stop") I don't want to think about what the result of that would look like for the cleanup crew. Eeeewww.
The output of the compressor is at 1000 deg. F and 300 psi. That is pretty scary.
That capsule ( http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2013-08-12/0812_Hyperloop_605.jpg ) looks like a claustrophobic's nightmare. Otherwise very, very cool.
I get the feeling the space in the passenger car (which is limited) was designed by people who build space capsules.
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> When a train exceeds the shear wave speed, ground-borne vibration waves "build up" in a manner similar to the shock wave created in air when a plane exceeds the speed of sound... Putting the railway or tubes on pylons would give you an opportunity to dampen or otherwise transform those vibrations wouldn't they?
Putting the railway or tubes on pylons would give you an opportunity to dampen or otherwise transform those vibrations wouldn't they? Maybe, maybe not. Guideway supports (pylons) are typically founded into the bedrock which does reduce vibration somewhat, but the vertical motion of the pylon moving against the soil will still generate shear waves. This is why a demonstration project would be useful.
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It was approved by a ballot measure, so in this case it may be the "idiocy" (or will) of the voter. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition...
I'm not from the area, so I don't know how such a ballot works but for voters who didn't have Musk-level engineering knowledge, was the choice the status quo of not fast trains and spending on fast trains?