Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.
Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.
jonne@infosec.pub 10 months ago
And even maglev is barely done because it’s so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.
kittyjynx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.
jonne@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.