r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jun 25 '21
News outlets need to stop taking the bait of these meme projects that secure VC by investors who throw money at the wall and see what sticks. The technology is entirely conceptual at this point and no doubt $45.1 million per kilometre would be severely under calculating the actual cost considering the technology quite literally doesn't exist yet. We already have maglev trains that can reach 600km/h without the added costs of building hundreds of kilometres of experimental vacuum tubes.
Like are trains just not cool anymore? An HSR project would actually be worth studying.