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Gas pipelines hold hundreds of bar of pressure; I don't see how one atmosphere is a problem.
by nbanks 9y ago
Gas pipelines hold hundreds of bar of pressure; I don't see how one atmosphere is a problem.
- dx034 9y agoGas has no problem flowing around corners. Gas pipelines are usually not straight lines. Hyperloop will have to be a straight line, unless you want to kill passengers.
- mrguyorama 9y agoGas pipelines use Expansion Loops [1] to pick up expansion slack. The problem is that, in order to push people through the tube at 700mph at acceptable G's, you can't put bends like that in the HyperLoop. If you try to send people down a pipeline at 700mph, you would end up with paste at the other side. Gas pipelines are surprisingly un-straight, bendy, and bumpy [1] https://static.interestingengineering.com/images/import/2017/06/Expansion_Loop_in_Pipeline.jpg https://static.interestingengineering.com/images/import/2017...