Posted on 07/06/2016 8:11:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Hyperloop One has released a proposal that will allow passengers to commute 310 miles (500km) between Helsinki in Finland and Stockholm in Sweden in just 28 minutes.
Currently it takes around an hour to fly from Stockholm to Helsinki, or a 16 hour ferry journey.
The company was among the first to demonstrate its technology for the transport system, dreamed up by Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk, in a trial in the Navada desert in May.
It hopes to build pods that can travel through vacuum tubes at speeds of up to 700mph.
In a feasibility study drawn up with Nordic firm FS-Links Ab and auditors KMPG, Hyperloop One said it may be possible to build the transport network for an estimated £16.2 billion ($23 billion/19 billion Euros).
This would include the cost of building one of the world's largest marine tunnels through the Aland Archipelago in the Baltic Sea – estimated to cost £2.6 billion ($3.3 billion/3 billion Euros).
It claims that it will be able to slash the time it takes to make a journey by air from three and a half hours to under 30 minutes
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What could possibly go wrong?
They’ll be Spandex Jackets, one for everyone.
Nice!
"Wait, I thought it was the other way around..."
CMAAHROS.
Carrying Muslims At A Higb Rate Of Speed.
Dead in 20 seconds.
They need a fast jihadi transport system. Ei think we’ve seen that Europeans aren’t just gonna blow themselves up anymore.
Ha, nice subtle “Die Hard” reference!
They can’t speil “Nevada” correctly so this is “pre-fail”
And you know who it is going to be transporting to the cities faster than ever!
:)
Actually, this makes more sense than building choo choos.
I’m sure this is coming to Europe. The liberals have a real fetish for train projects that cost $10 million per mile.
Helsinki and Stockholm aren’t terribly large cities. They’re certainly not obvious candidates for the first hyperlink.
But Helsinki isn’t far at all from St. Petersburg. And St. Petersburg and Moscow are very obvious candidates:
They have massive populations and are far and away the powerhouses of Russia. Moscow has 20 million residents and St. Petersburg has 6 million. (Compare to Western Europe’s largest city, London with 8 million.) They are far enough away from each other to make Hyperlink desirable, but have nothing but cheap real estate and flat, easy land in between.
St Petersburg was founded as Russia’s window to the West. Connecting to St Petersburg and Moscow would be a huge boon to Helsinki, but would risk it becoming seen as a satellite to Russia. Counterbalancing that with links to Stockholm and maybe even Oslo or Copenhagen/Malmo and Germany would make such linkage to Russia politically safer.
I’m also not ignoring the timing of this announcement. Sweden and Denmark are part of the EU, but like Britain, they don’t use the Euro, and they’re uneasy about their membership in the EU. While of course they certainly don’t want to be subsumed by Russia, they may well greatly like a counterbalance now that the EU is lame.
Imagine:
London (12 million, EU’s largest city)
Paris (11 million, EU’s 2nd largest city)
Brussels (EU capital)
Ruhr/Cologne (11 million EU’s third largest metropolis)
Hamburg (3 million, EU’s 9th largest city)
Copenhagen (2 million)
Stockholm (2 million)
Helsinki
St. Petersburg (5 million)
Moscow (20 million, the Western world’s largest city)
Eat it, Harvey!
:-)
Let the Europeans build the first one.
If it turns out to be an economical mode of transport the US built versions should be cheaper and safer after the bugs are worked out. I’m not a fan of being the guinea pig.
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