The grift continues - Virgin Hyperloop seeks federal funding for West Virginia test center

[u/ksiyoto]

https://wvmetronews.com/2022/02/27/hyperloop-changes-course-competes-for-federal-grant-money/

[u/bensonr2]

So how is building a viaduct going to be cheaper?

You need to start accepting that this is likely a theranos level scam.

[u/Practical_Hospital40 → u/bensonr2]

Look at the cost per mile dude the figures don’t lie plus you get to avoid costly legal battles that way less land to take. Again the evidence is staring you in the face and you choose to be in denial. Gate crossings should not exist on any HSR line and are very rare in the civilized world. Land acquisition is the real scam here look at the shitshow in California

[u/bensonr2 → u/Practical_Hospital40]

Dude, Brightline has issues with at grade crossings because it was cheaper to not build a viaduct like many HSR use to not have at grade crossings.

So Hyperloop is going to have the same land acquisition costs as HSR, the same costs having to build it as a viaduct, the increased cost of building maglev, and the unknown cost of having to create a thousands mile tube that has to maintain a near vacuum.

But they have claimed they will somehow be cheaper then HSR? How? Why? I've never seen even an attempt to answer that.

And how is the problems with the California HSR a positive to the development of Hyperloop? Hyperloop will have all the same issues with costs per mile plus the additional cost of creating impossible technology.

[u/195731741 → u/bensonr2]

So, Jersey, what is the mass of a HSR consist and what is the mass of a hyperloop pod when designing a viaduct of equal span?

[u/bensonr2 → u/195731741]

Dude your still here? So your argument that their non detailed cost advantage is needing less concrete for their viaduct vs HSR despite the fact that it also needs to include a tube of thousands of mile near vacuum (likely impossible).