while i don&#x27;t think they (or anybody else in the foreseeable future, save for Chinese Communist Party taking over the Western states :) will be able to build a real infrastructure piece of several hundred miles length - politics, economy, etc. wouldn&#x27;t let it, the HT looks like a starting point to develop a space or subspace launch system - it has all the necessary components like evacuated pipe, EM acceleration and levitation. Nevada desert isn&#x27;t a bad place for it (while throwing over Pacific is less favorable than the other direction would be, the cheapness of ground boost compensates for the loss of Earth rotation boost).