BOB2 Wrote:
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> The problem with going "super fast" on a guideway
> like this with a relatively short distance between
> the handful of stations there is no opportunity to
> use it... We have not repealed the laws of
> gravity and therefore people riding in the vehicle
> can only stand a certain rate of acceleration
> without wearing G-suits... All of that extra
> energy expended in this application then has to be
> dissipated to stop at the next station, with the
> reverse G-force issue. And worse, if these stops
> are only located at a mile or two apart, then the
> times savings to "average speed" become minimal
> for the much more expensive marginal capital and
> operating/energy costs. The huge investment in
> speed just isn't worth it, and with any kind of
> transit application, the need to stop and serve
> "destinations" slows the average speed, making
> this kind of theoretical speed kind of a waste.
>
>
> Musk had started hyping hyperloop back before I
> retired. it is sometimes a system that somehow
> magically "levitates" (but isn't necessarily
> "maglev""); sometimes it doesn't magically
> levitate; it is always a "clean" transportation
> "system"; it always goes very very super fast; it
> is always going to be way way faster than driving
> in every application; sometimes there's a version
> where you are delivered down in a magic elevator
> in your Tesla to an underground station, where it
> is put on a magic sled and whisked directly to
> your stop (sidings?, exact timing?, more
> "magic"?); sometimes in a glorified shuttle bus in
> a small bore tunnel; and there are no answers on
> how you handle the issues with how you load or
> take off passengers, except of course for that
> magic elevator that loads your Tesla on the
> sled....
>
> I've seen every variant above "hyped" over the
> last ten years.... And, no real questions ever
> really answered, as I told several
> interested/intrigued clients. It's not "hype" you
> see, it's just that "boring" details aren't
> apparently that important, thus, making answering
> them, more difficult... So we'll just have to
> see... VIVA Las Vegas!

You talk too much.