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Hyperloop or hyperbole? Musk promises NY-DC run in 29 mins
« on: July 23, 2017, 04:47:32 pm »
Hyperloop or hyperbole? Musk promises NY-DC run in 29 mins
July 21, 2017
 

US entrepreneur Elon Musk said Thursday he'd received tentative approval from the government to build a conceptual "hyperloop" system that would blast passenger pods down vacuum-sealed tubes from New York to Washington at near supersonic speeds.

"Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins," the flamboyant CEO of Tesla and SpaceX tweeted, using abbreviations for New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC.


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Re: Hyperloop or hyperbole? Musk promises NY-DC run in 29 mins
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2017, 05:03:13 pm »
And how many legal jurisdictions, governmental entities, etc. does this project face?

Got ground water contamination hysteria, got regulations,, taxations, unions, before anybody reaches the point of economic viability.

Don't some major rivers reach the sea, along that corridor?

I guess Elon Musk spoke to Jerry brown, and decided to go elsewhere for his folly.

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