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The 700 M. P. H. Missouri Mole

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:14 AM

BaltACD

Where is the perpetual motion machine?

 

In Elon Musk's mind.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:32 AM

Where is the perpetual motion machine?

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:11 AM

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.

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:13 AM

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.

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The 700 M. P. H. Missouri Mole
Posted by Victrola1 on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 7:30 AM

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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