Hyperloop One to shut down
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Hyperloop One to shut down
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#2This is a weird case of Musk being right, in a way. Before the hyperloop paper he was asked about "maglev in an evacuated tube" and he said the economics of that didn't make sense. The hyperloop paper proposed an air-bearing for levitation rather than magnetics, and presumably that doesn't work either; I'm not a mech-e, but I'd imagine the tolerances for an air-bearing are too tight for a tube that is attached to (moving) earth.
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#3Archive link: https://archive.md/GODfa
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#5This is a weird case of Musk being right, in a way. Before the hyperloop paper he was asked about "maglev in an evacuated tube" and he said the economics of that didn't make sense. The hyperloop paper proposed an air-bearing for levitation rather than magnetics, and presumably that doesn't work either; I'm not a mech-e, but I'd imagine the tolerances for an air-bearing are too tight for a tube that is attached to (mo…
I'm out of the (hyper)loop... what was he saying did make economic sense then?
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#6It served its purpose of diverting attention (and so funding) from high speed rail, which is a threat to his business of selling cars.
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...
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#7Robert Goddard designed a vacuum train in the 1910s, why did Elon think it was going to work a century later?
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#8It served its purpose of diverting attention (and so funding) from high speed rail, which is a threat to his business of selling cars. https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...
Though CA “high speed” rail is so profoundly dysfunctional that it was hardly worth Musk’s efforts.
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#10It served its purpose of diverting attention (and so funding) from high speed rail, which is a threat to his business of selling cars. https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...
High Speed rail attempts have failed everywhere in North America, it has nothing to do with Musk or Hyperloop and everything to do with how incredibly poorly HSR fits into the existing urban fabric of North America. There have been many studies of building a HSR line between Windsor and Quebec City and you just can't make it work.