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The Hyperloop: BUSTED
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EEVblog:
A new hype video:


This contains so much BS and rhetoric I don't know were to begin.
Brumby:
If they're planning to really build it - then this is the place where money isn't going to be as constraining as it would be in the rest of the world....
wraper:
BTW Japanese are testing their SCMaglev (Superconducting Maglev, onboard magnets cooled with liquid helium to -269oC) which tested up to 603 km/h, and they are riding oridinary people at 500 km/h. Moreover tickets will cost only a little bit more that current Shinkansen. Also this is not going to be some just short line (current test line is 42.8 km), but ~500km from Osaka to Tokyo.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: wraper on November 02, 2016, 11:55:10 pm ---BTW Japanese are testing their SCMaglev (Superconducting Maglev, onboard magnets cooled with liquid helium to -269oC) which tested up to 603 km/h, and they are riding oridinary people at 500 km/h. Moreover tickets will cost only a little bit more that current Shinkansen. Also this is not going to be some just short line (current test line is 42.8 km), but ~500km from Osaka to Tokyo.

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And that's the thing. The Hyperloop is orders of magnitude more engineering complexity and risk, for what, double the speed?
Not going to happen.
Gazza2:
Anybody who went to expo 88 in Brisbane will remember the "Scram jet" powered commercial aircraft that were going to revolutionise the way we travelled in the future. They had a large exhibit full of impressive pictures, models and stats such as travelling to New York from Sydney in about 3 hrs, Sydney to Melbourne in 15 minutes or something ridiculous like that by flying into space and following a ballistic trajectory just like nukes do. I vaguely remember it being called the Hyperjet or something similar as it would fly at hypersonic speed. It was only 5 to 10 years away and would be the only way we travelled by the year 2000. All it needed was gob loads of money for the engineers to sort out the technical details of the scram jet. There was a show on abc at the time called "Towards 2000" and they expounded its virtues and technical difficulties on several shows. 10 years later the show was now called "Beyond 2000" and they were still saying it was only 10 years away and reported on the advances made to create a real working scram jet. The show became "Quantum" and they were saying the scram jet was basically ready to go and just needed a little bit more work to be done to figure out the technical aspects. Today engineers and scientists have made huge leaps but still haven't managed to develop the scramjet beyond experimental status, which was the only teeny tiny technical detail that needed to be sorted out to begin with. "Quantum" is now "Catylist" and this week the abc announced it planned to fire the entire science team before thinking about the shows future. This has nothing to do with thread but I thought that coincidence is pretty funny :-DD This is what the Hyperloop fans are in for. But chin up hyper speed travel fans, the Hyperjet should be here within the next 10 years..... >:D
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