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Study: Proposed Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Chicago hyperloop would be highly profitable
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| December 17, 2019
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Posted on 12/20/2019 5:39:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kneejerk guess > massive fustercluck + massive corruption
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:42:08 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:43:06 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WTH?!
Last I knew all three cities were depopulating.
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:43:31 PM PST
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mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If they say it will cost $100 billion be assured it will cost twenty times that.
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:43:43 PM PST
by
airborne
(I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Can you say “Boon Doggle?”
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:45:13 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
highly profitable for the polticans skiming off the kick backs from contractors
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:45:52 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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12/20/2019 5:47:25 PM PST
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ltc8k6
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No doubt. Just look at what a power house money maker amtrak i.................... Oh.
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:48:10 PM PST
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rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sounds cool. But the technology is yet to be proven reliable or safe or durable. My off the cuff reaction is that it will end up costing well north of $40 billion to build out, and won’t make anywhere close to $30 billion in profits over the first 25 years.
Still, would be cool to see them build something like this as a pilot, and then scale it. But heck if it is all private money and private property who am I to complain?
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:49:29 PM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No doubt it would be highly profitable for the people peddling it.
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:50:48 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It would be highly profitable,for those building it and servicing it.
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:51:28 PM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Fracking would make the ground beneath our feet unstable they say. It could trigger sinkholes and earthquakes they say. But putting 100’s of miles of tubes under that very same ground, plus the ventilation and electrical systems and other logistics needed will save the planet. More wasteful feel good-ism from the tree huggers and trainbrains.
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12/20/2019 5:51:37 PM PST
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Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
To: BobL; sphinx; Publius; GreenLanternCorps
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12/20/2019 5:53:26 PM PST
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
To: BenLurkin
--
21st century Music Man --
Heh! set to the Simpson's monorail, genius!
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:53:39 PM PST
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Cboldt
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sounds great. At 500 mph, you could watch the Bears lose at noon, catch a Cleveland Browns loss at 4pm and then see Pittsburgduhhh lose the Sunday night game.
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12/20/2019 5:54:08 PM PST
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sergeantdave
(Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They should get in touch with Elon Musk and The Boring Company. Check out YouTube interviews about them. Whereas existing tunnel boring companies do the job at a cost between $100 million to $500 million a mile, Elon says his company can do the job between $3 million to $10 million a mile. Existing government projects are wasteful and use century old technology. The Boring Company currently has a tunnel contract near Los Angeles. Not a hyper loop, but the tech can be scaled up to a hyper loop between cities.
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12/20/2019 5:54:38 PM PST
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roadcat
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The wrecks would be spectacular
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posted on
12/20/2019 5:54:48 PM PST
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Cboldt
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thats the conclusion of a 157-page feasibility study released Monday in Cleveland by the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., a California-based company developing the technology to move passengers and freight at more than 500 mph through low-pressure tubes. Imagine that! The company whose technology it is presents a study stating that we should invest beaucoup billions in their idea.
Also, notice that they're still "developing" the technology, yet they can already predict what it will cost, and all the pluses and minuses. Geniuses, I say!
To: roadcat
Not much to skim off the lower priced tunnel, so that one is out of the running.
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12/20/2019 5:58:16 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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