Posted on 12/18/2014 9:56:26 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
PLAYA VISTA (CBSLA.com) — It takes about six hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco – depending on your speed – and more than an hour to fly.
But in the future, the trip may take a matter of minutes.
Designers of the speed tube called Hyperloop say they are one step closer to making that happen.
Tesla founder Elon Musk says the technology is being developed with the help of about 25 UCLA graduate architecture students at a facility in Playa Vista.
Hyperloop has teamed up with the students to create the tube technology, designed to connect cities less than 300 miles apart.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
This is an interesting concept and it appears to be independently fund so far, but I can just imaging the billions of dollars in government grant requests in the future.
If this is what I think it is, it involves essentially an underground straight tube from start to destination. The inside of the tube is evacuated to a partial vacuum state to allow more efficient travel.
Now, let’s consider being in a tube...underground....going at a good rate of speed....in earthquake land.
One could only hope that the big one occurs when the entire dim-bulb-crat CA legislature takes the first ride in the darned thing.
Sigh, I remember when California was “the place to be”.
” Now, let’s consider being in a tube...underground....going at a good rate of speed....in earthquake land.”
LOL......not me!
Supposedly it is to be put on pylons, above ground, and it will be earthquake resistant. The pylons also have the impact of reducing the cost to procure land. I’m not quite sure how that works, since most people don’t want to tube going above their property.
So why are we wasting a hundred billion of our “globull warming tax” dollars on “high speed” rail?
Proposed over two centuries ago, and implemented at various times in the 19th century, ultimately abandoned. Maybe the 21st century version will be less sucky by being more sucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Devon_Railway_Company
They could build one up to the lake in Ohio, cause Cleveland sucks!
This would be privately funded as opposed to the current California HSR plan. Keep in mind that a French consortium had been turned down on their proposal to build a SF-to-LA HSR with private money. The problem with that plan is that it used mostly public and low-value land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley for its route. The reason that’s a problem is that the route didn’t cross so much Democrat-owned land like the current project does.
It also proposed a direct route between SF and LA instead of the current circuitous route that takes a potential two hour trip and raises it to more like four hours.
and they will do this with their own money and buy the right of ways themselves without imminent domain too... right....
I like the "about $16 billion" - maybe its really $32 billion, but hey - who cares? Money is free.
I can see the Federal Reserve buying up the California and Muni bonds as part of their next QE.
Great idea. It will work in many places because: New York City Sucks, Chicago Sucks, Boston Sucks, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, and ... well every major city sucks!
My thoughts immediately: sounds great, except in geologically unstable places like California or Japan.
Yeah, is there going to be private financing for this? Do any companies think they can make their 16billion back? Doubt it...
what could possibly go wrong?
From the earlier articles about it, the design was for it to be above ground.
And just put all signage in Spanish to save time and money
Still, it's interesting and I would like to see a Privately Funded prototype in operation somewhere.
-— Now, let’s consider being in a tube...underground....going at a good rate of speed....in earthquake land. ——
Maybe some ind of elasti tube above ground, and anhored in earth lie an oil platform
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