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The Hyperloop: BUSTED
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usagi:

--- Quote from: apis on December 13, 2018, 06:26:13 am ---However

--- Quote ---The Hyperloop concept has been explicitly "open-sourced" by Musk and SpaceX, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them.
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There are now several different competing designs.

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so when they all fail, elon can blame everyone else, instead of admitting it was a braindamaged idea to begin with.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: usagi on January 24, 2019, 12:18:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: apis on December 13, 2018, 06:26:13 am ---However

--- Quote ---The Hyperloop concept has been explicitly "open-sourced" by Musk and SpaceX, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them.
--- End quote ---
There are now several different competing designs.

--- End quote ---
so when they all fail, elon can blame everyone else, instead of admitting it was a braindamaged idea to begin with.

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Which is why he isn't putting any real money into it himself, apart from (SpaceX?) funding some student comps which is probably a tax write-off anyway. He left it up to other suckers to put in the serious money and try and do it. Same with the Boring company, Musk admitted on the Joe Rogan podcast that it's basically a joke.
Wouldn't surprise me if he's deliberately trolling everyone just for kicks.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on January 24, 2019, 01:16:55 am ---Another analysis of the Hyperloop:

"The Biggest Problem With Hyperloop - Why It Will Fail Hard"


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Great video, well researched and produced. Conclusions are bang on.
nctnico:
I see mostly FUD in the video. I wouldn't be too quick to write the idea off (lots of companies are investing in hyperloops after all). Think about transporting of goods. In Europe the effective speed of a freight train is 30km/h. This means a lot of stuff gets trucked for hundreds of kilometers from harbours to places inland because using a freight train takes too long. A hyperloop system which can automatically transport containers to and from a harbour could save a massive amount of money (no drivers) and fuel (less CO2 emissions). Having the pods run inside a tube makes them not prone to collisions like railways are. An automated routing system would take away the time needed to assemble a train and connect/disconnect wagons at each stop. Each pod can be directed to the place it needs to be.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/05/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-partners-with-port-of-hamburg-operator-to-develop-cargo-service/
MrMobodies:
Just watched the Elon Musk LITERALLY reinvents the tunnel! video from Thunderfoot.

Instead of the skate things they put little guide rails on the wheels.



Is that something they have to put on manually?

Also I see they make pipes larger than 1.83m in diameters.

ASTM A252 API 5L Grb 2m Diameter SSAW Spiral Round Steel Pipe



https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ASTM-A252-API-5L-Grb-2m_60764802350.html


I think Hyper Pipe is a better name for it.

After all it's all hype and he's piping on about it.
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