Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’
Something I wrote a while ago.... w&#x2F; back of the napkin calculations.......<p>Why I wouldn’t invest a money into Hyperloop<p>- Stabilizing a single fault line risk pylon is more than $250K.<p>- How many million are needed for vacuum pumps to evacuate 100+ million cubic feet of of pipe to 100 Pa?<p>- Hot air discharge needs to go somewhere. For every 1 bar pressure, you need ~200 to ~400 cubic meters of volume which is larger<p>- This seems very much like one of those Andy Grove Fallacies.<p>- The hyperloop is a mega engineering project on the ground. Nobody on their team is a civil engineer. Looking at their team objectively, there seems to be a mismatch of competency.<p>- At its core, the science i good, the cost-economics do not work. Das ist nicht gute.