What boy growing up in the 50’s and 60’s reading Popular Science didn’t think about something like this years ago? I know I did. In fact, you could probably find a nearly exact artist’s rendition in an old PS magazine from many decades ago. Tired old ideas get a new lease on life when you throw in the free money of socialism. Musk will impress me when he makes a profit on private capital without government ‘incentives’ and tax breaks.
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I did read about this in Pop Sci when I was a teen 40 years ago.
It was a maglev vacuum tube train. I could travel at hyper speed more efficiently because of the reduced air resistance while traveling in a vacuum.
Musk must be somewhat of a masochist for building this in the People’s Republic of California.