Super fast travel Hyperloop transport system

[Thor.]

We will only soon find out what it really is, quotes.

 

its like a??

 

 

 

 

it may even be ready by the end of this year??

 

Edited July 24, 2013 by Thor.

[Vagrant0]

If it uses any sort of network like railways, it'll never get built in the USA. Automotive and airline companies were already successful in completely shutting down any sort of high-speed rail lines. Innovative or not, those who have control of policy makers usually call the shots. And even then, you still have to spend a rediculous amount of money buying property and building the infrastructure for such a system.

[Thor.]

Its already being built, they have an alpha build already and said it would be in working faze by the end of 2013, its a now thing.

 

 

There is little information coming in, but they claim it could be like super highway, like the internet but in small capsules.

They have to many investors to have any backlash now..

 

This is a big story because it could in theory change everyday life.

more random information about hyperloop

Edited July 25, 2013 by Thor.

[Marxist ßastard]

The cost alone for the necessarily tunneling would be astronomical. It is estimated that the current US interstate system which is about 47,000 miles of road cost upward of $128.9 billion dollars.

In other words, a small fraction of our yearly military budget.

[Thor.]

They probably wouldn't need to tunnel if they are being tethered like a monorail system above ground. Using only flat services or under water.

Digging would be a problem, but they could in theory give money to farmers and add the monorail lines across open fields, like wind power today.

 

They would also need stabilizers in case of earthquakes, or bury them in fault lines, or bypass unstable ground. Sense they travel so fast anyways, it wouldn't need shortcuts.

 

I could see this be a problem with japan sense its on a fault line to begin with. Technically speaking it is a fault line.

Edited July 25, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

Thor, aren't you even a little bit suspicious of this? Elon Musk makes his money off investors. And what serves him better than coming up with some huge "world-changing" project that every gullible idiot with a fat bank balance will want to invest in? It's got everything; it's front page news so it's free advertising, it's got the world talking, so it's got brand recognition, and best of all Musk himself doesn't actually have to invent a thing. The fact there are NO details or information or prices or spec lists available should be ringing all kinds of alarm bells in your and other people's heads. Wake up and smell the corporate corruption.

 

There was a story almost identical to this in Australia about eight years ago. An investor claimed to have made an incredible break-through in automotive engines and then spent three years touring motor-shows with tantalizing "new production" prototypes. Everything about it was similar to hyperloop-the world changing nature of the project, the way he became front-page global news, the way countless people invested. And the way nothing was ever revealed. Because there was no engine. It was a scam. The investor went into hiding in Indonesia and neither he, the engine, or the millions people invested in him, have been seen since.

 

Musk's done things like this before. He's been claiming to be "on the very edge" of being able to send people to mars for almost a decade. Not only is the hyperloop fundamentally impossible from a scientific, engineering or fiscal perspective, it just defies common sense. Musk's a liar and worse, and investment millionaire. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

[Thor.]

He owns Spacex, Tesla motors, this project was backed by other companies, i think he is investing in this technology out of his own pocket, the whole concept behind it, ET3 which was originally behind the Hyperloop, I think he Invested into the project himself.

 

Elon Musk i don't think he was behind the original project but is helping nonetheless. ???? the Videos show that fact, they didn't mention space x or Tesla Motors in that early video 2012.

 

watch the end??

 

They where looking into others though, so he might have high interest in the project???, mystery but i think its a good thing he is involved. Money is key..

 

The mystery thickens.

We only have to wait until August 12 to find out.

Edited July 25, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

And where's Tesla now, eh? they've vanished. Bankrupt. A bunch of people invested in them, the money vanished, and now so has Tesla. Gone without a trace.

[Thor.]

Cough!!

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155897-tesla-model-s-is-now-the-best-selling-luxury-car-with-an-asterisk

[Vagrant0]

And where's Tesla now, eh? they've vanished. Bankrupt. A bunch of people invested in them, the money vanished, and now so has Tesla. Gone without a trace.

Not gone, just not as common or advertised due to being a luxury car that most cannot afford. Also probably not as revolutionary as it was claimed.

 

I wouldn't call this a scam, but even if it could do a fraction of what it would claim to do, the actual logistics of building even a small working network would be astronomical. You can't build anything in the US without crossing through miles of red tape, and can't build anything reasonably large without atleast a dozen wildlife activists raising a stink.

 

Nevermind the part related to actually maintaining such a system. Even if all the important parts were contained in the pod and the tubes were little more than a concrete shell, you'd still have people breaking into whatever service passages might exist, covering the outside with graffiti, stealing any monitoring equipment, or worse. And since we're talking about a transcontinental network here, even a small problem in a line would render travel from another part impossible and probably mean the death of anyone who was already in transit.

 

Put simply, the stupid, greedy people of the world is exactly why we can't have nice things.