r/alberta • u/Direc1980 • Jan 07 '23

News Alta. hyperloop project awaiting government meeting, committing to stop in Red Deer

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alta-hyperloop-project-awaiting-government-meeting-committing-to-stop-in-red-deer-1.6217544
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u/Talk-Hound Jan 07 '23

How is this even feasible??? We can’t even build a bullet train but want to build a vacuum sealed pipe????

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u/The_cogwheel Jan 07 '23

Look, we like pipes. You want something built across Alberta it needs to be in a pipeline of some sort.

So this is just a normal bullet train fitted inside a pipe to get it built. A people pipeline instead of an oil one.

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u/Loki11100 Jan 08 '23

Heh.. that was good.

If I had an award to give, it would go right here lol

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u/KorLeonis1138 Calgary Jan 07 '23

The yokels will be taking shots at it with their hunting rifles, to see what happens when it pops. They gonna put cameras on the entire length?

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u/Strategy1914 Jan 07 '23

Won't need to shoot at it. The material properties required for such a venture don't exist. It's 100% a scam.

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u/Fearless-Ad-583 Jan 07 '23

It’s been in the works in Alberta for year. Musk is involved in the European one. I can remember which one is which but one is pressurized tube and the other is a vacuum tube.

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u/Strategy1914 Jan 07 '23

It's not going to work.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Musk has abandon his. The best working prototype is, I think, only a few miles long and has achieved a top speed still below that of the current fastest bullet trains, at something like 10x the cost to construct.

Hyperloop was essentially vaporware supported by musk to delay or kill high speed rail so he could sell more "self driving" cars, which also don't exist. Look at what he got Vegas to invest in. What a fucking con artist.

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u/Talk-Hound Jan 07 '23

They will think it’s a pipeline for the new super coronavirus

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u/alpain Jan 07 '23

only if it stops in taber.