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I'm out of the (hyper)loop... what was he saying did make economic sense then?

• aidenn0 3y ago
  It was supposed to be an air-bearing; there would be some sort of fan that would take air from the front of the car, and move it to the back of the car, diverting some fraction to the bottom of the car for it to slide over (think like an air-hockey table).
  • darksaints 3y ago
    I work quite a bit with air bearings. There is an inverse relationship with pressure requirements and tolerances. If you want low pressures, you need high tolerances...if you want low tolerances, you need high pressures. There was some fundamental math that could have refuted this idea from the very beginning, but Musk spoke before he calculated.
    • aidenn0 3y ago
      Thanks for that, I suspected something like that was true, but have zero experience with air-bearings other than the aforementioned air-hockey.