SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1a22mn wrote
Reply to comment by swistak84 in Elon Musk posts on Weibo about how action matters more than words and gets an earful from disgruntled Chinese netizens by Saltedline
Obviously, the containment would be built out of concrete.
Otherwise it would be impossible, it would collapse on itself by stress alone rather quickly.
Anyway, my point is that Hyperloop is like wanting to make the concorde without making the 707 first.
And it may very well like the concorde end up being not practical.
Frankly, I don't see the need to be faster than 400km/h . That's what videoconferences are for
swistak84 t1_j1ah065 wrote
Obviously? Because none of the efforts or whitepaper tried that ...
SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1aj5n9 wrote
Nobody is suggesting you build it with the materials of a thin pressure vessel .
swistak84 t1_j1ak29s wrote
Literally what Musk's whitepaper suggested.
SquatchWithNoHeroes t1_j1aki7g wrote
I'm pretty sure that even that whitepaper doesn't suggest something that is meant to resist inward pressure instead of outward pressure
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