Posted on 05/13/2016 4:17:34 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Just three years after Elon Musk described his sci-fi-esque vision for “hyperloop” travel, one of two competing companies, Hyperloop One, successfully conducted its first proof-of-concept test in Nevada.
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It is never meant to function. It is just meant to funnel dollars to the ChiComs.
Very interesting concept. We need more details on the concept.
Isn’t Mr. Musk politically a hyper leftist like most of the other enterprise/digital geniuses?
If Musk can stop this INSANE Bullet Train, having to deal with all his hype would have been worth it. If the end result is that 2% of the cost of the bullet train is instead used to add a lane to I-5 each way in the Central Valley, he’ll be a HERO to me.
It’s a cargo system, is it not?
yep
It is never meant to function. It is just meant to funnel dollars to the ChiComs.
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Obama’s 8 years will have added $11+ trillion to the national debt. I am not sure where the money went. Did it go to our military? Infrastructure? Who knows?
The libs says $4 trillion was spent on wars. Where was the other $7 trillion spent?
If Hyperloop carries passengers it will be so sensitive to damage by terrorists, or even dolts, that the U.S. Gestapo will have to confiscate all constitutional rights of people living within a 100 miles area of the tubes, in order for the company to make a profit at taxpayers’ expense.
On issues unrelated to his main activity, yes.
On business issues, he’s a groundbreaking hyper productive capitalist.
Insofar as he’s using tax breaks, there they are and heck yeah he’s going to leverage them for all they’re worth. We’re for lower taxes, so kudos to anyone who get them.
Did Elon Musk just make California’s $64 billion bullet train obsolete before it’s even built?
No; these guys did.
There truly is nothing new under the sun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#In_public_transportation
No - Southwest Airlines did it long ago.
The cost is already over $100 billion with $1 billion going to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D) Her husband “won” a contract for supplying railroad ties even though he has never been involved with a project like this.
Thanks, yes, just al little unknown fact that the Feinsteins got this essentially on a no bid. They were “Awarded” the project based on who they are. This is how “Democracy” (Fascism) works
So, we had an over-inflated budget that was simply pushed along, year after year. The last twelve years have been the greatest heist in American history.
The cost is already over $100 billion with $1 billion going to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D) Her husband “won” a contract for supplying railroad ties even though he has never been involved with a project like this.
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That’s why politicians love big and expensive construction projects.
Like Bill Gates.
How about malfunctions and maintenance issues?
You are putting these people in a relatively pressurized module that needs its own source of air because they're in a long tube that is vacuumized.
Walls of both the tube and the modules must be rugged.
How do they escape?
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