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They are right next to Hawthorne Airport... that's the only place I can see the track being located. The rest of the surroundings are industrial buildings.
Aren't these meant to be underground?
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After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project). He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
Hyperloop tubes are elevated, not buried underground.
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After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project). He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
Hyperloop tubes are elevated, not buried underground.
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Elon Musk doesn't have the time to learn civil engineering, property development, let alone the politics surrounding it.
After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project). He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
Part of Elon's design for the pylons allows the track to remain stable even when the pylons are moved by an earthquake. Which is kind of important with pods moving around Mach 1. Doing the same thing with a tunnel requires you to have cut a large enough hole to shift the tube inside of. Which is a massively harder piece of engineering.
> SpaceX will construct a one-mile test track adjacent to our Hawthorne, California headquarters I'm not sure which would be the more remarkable achievement, getting the Hyperloop working, or obtaining the real estate to build a mile-long test track in Hawthorne .
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After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project). He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
You don't want to do that for reasons that Elon understands well. Part of Elon's design for the pylons allows the track to remain stable even when the pylons are moved by an earthquake. Which is kind of important with pods moving around Mach 1. Doing the same thing with a tunnel requires you to have cut a large enough hole to shift the tube inside of. Which is a massively harder piece of engineering.
As with everything, there are tradeoffs. Building above ground means land use issues, and the tunnel needs to be so small you can't stand in the hyperloop pods. Building underground means more support infrastructure, but you're limited less by politics and land use problems and more by engineering.
The questions is: which is cheaper to solve? Engineering? Or politics?
I would add a pod decompression, and the emergency braking emergencies. Common oxigen masks don't work above 50000' and you can not dissipate the kinetic energy of a pod traveling at 900km/h just by friction without a brake fire.
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After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project). He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
I think it's reasonable to expect at this point that there would be quite a lot of people willing to help Musk battle various leeches and vultures.
> SpaceX will construct a one-mile test track adjacent to our Hawthorne, California headquarters I'm not sure which would be the more remarkable achievement, getting the Hyperloop working, or obtaining the real estate to build a mile-long test track in Hawthorne .
Why not over the parking lots or back alleys, etc?