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Posted by Gramp on Monday, June 15, 2015 7:37 PM
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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:31 AM

From the artists concept drawing where people are almost laying down, I take it the ride will be so short in duration there will be no bathroom facilities nor a need to use them.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:09 AM

Elon Musk sounds like he's been reading too many back issues of "Popular Science", especially from the 1950's and early 1960's.  It's also interesting to note that he's not going to be the person who will invest in these pipedreams (pun intended).

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Posted by gardendance on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:48 AM

Where did you read that he's not going to invest in them? The article says he's running the contest, and even though it doesn't say that the prize is to be anything "beyond bragging rights", his cost to do it is more than zero.

And the article says his company "would build a one-mile prototype track". That also sounds like it would cost more than zero.

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:39 PM

What do you do if you have to take a leak e-route?

Sorry but the term "Spam in a Can" never seemed more appropriate. Definitely not a choice for the claustrophobic.

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Posted by wanswheel on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:49 PM
Excerpt from “Hyperloop Alpha” by Elon Musk
When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Note, I am hedging my statement slightly by saying “one of”. The head of the California high speed rail project called me to complain that it wasn’t the very slowest bullet train nor the very most expensive per mile.
Excerpt from NY Times, June 15

Much in the original proposal was not detailed, but Mr. Musk appears to envision cars inside a tube that transfer high pressure air from their front to their rear, and are suspended like pucks on an air hockey table.

The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, as the contest is called, will probably still draw competitors on the same order as skeptics.

Details like winning rights of way, constructing the tube, creating compressors capable of fueling it, maintaining a constant state of pressure, developing amplifiers or other transit stations to support and service the tube, figuring out and pricing the market, and whether there will be a dining car have yet to be worked out.

SpaceX has said it is not interested in developing a commercial Hyperloop itself, but is interested in helping to produce a prototype. Mr. Musk may simply be trying to kickstart some original thinking to foster development of an industry, as well as attracting engineers to his company. He previously open sourced all of Tesla’s patents with that aim.

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Posted by SALfan on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 8:10 PM

Sounds like Mr. Musk has ingested some good-quality hallucinogens.  I'll be much more impressed when his current venture turns a profit.

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Posted by ouibejamn on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 9:06 PM

SALfan
I'll be much more impressed when his current venture turns a profit.

I suspect he'll turn a profit before the SAL ever does again. It took at least five years for Amazon to turn a profit. Stay tuned.

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Posted by SALfan on Thursday, June 18, 2015 6:40 PM

That is a given, since SAL no longer exists.  Don't get me wrong, I admire the man for bringing a totally new kind of vehicle to market, but am getting tired of the breathless adoration his every word seems to cause.

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Posted by gardendance on Friday, June 19, 2015 6:27 AM

What's SAL?

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, June 19, 2015 6:35 AM

gardendance

What's SAL? 

Seaboard Airline Railway - the Seaboard the merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line which subsequently merged with the Chessie System to form CSX.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, June 19, 2015 7:11 AM

For all of his environmental preening, it's interesting to note that Elon Musk will be locating his battery plant in Nevada, which I believe is a "right-to-work for peanuts" state.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Friday, June 19, 2015 10:04 AM

Faster yet. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNC5iLNguRQ

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Posted by Gramp on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 2:19 PM
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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 1:32 PM
Everything tells me this thing will be extremely rough riding. Be very interesting to see the test footage inside of the prototype.

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