BaltACD Where is the perpetual motion machine?
Where is the perpetual motion machine?
Johnny
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I'm only surprised USA Today didn't mention the use of 'safe' thorium-cycle power to run it.
This has the hallmarks, to me, of some Elon Musk propaganda reaching a particularly gullible target.
Or perhaps a story published two months early.
The article implies use of I-70 ROW. That will get thrown out quickly since a path designed for 70 MPH will generate excessive lateral and vertical forces for passenger comfort and perhaps for safety. The corridor would work, but will require substantial ROW acquisition costs plus bridges and tunnels.
Hype unless someone comes up with billions of dollars. It is very difficult for an entity that has to recover its capital costs to compete with cheap highway and air systems that do not recover their costs.
SAN FRANCISCO — Commuters in Missouri face the prospect of trading their grinding highway slog for a 700-mph hyperloop that is still in testing and would carry high-speed rail type prices....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/01/30/missouri-ready-700-mph-commutes/1078842001/
Hyperloop, or just more hyberbole?
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