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It's not an evacuated tube, Musk has said so explicitly on more than one occasion. Also, the Hyperloop system is still extraordinarily expensive, characterizin
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
It's not an evacuated tube, Musk has said so explicitly on more than one occasion.
Also, the Hyperloop system is still extraordinarily expensive, characterizing it as "1/10th as expensive as a railway" is misleading. It's, potentially, 1/10th as expensive as the ludicrously expensive California high-speed rail system which comes in at an astounding $68 billion just to connect San Francisco and LA. Which might be more than the entire TGV system cost to construct, for that matter. It's certainly several times the cost of the channel tunnel, for example.
- guynamedloren 13y agoYeah, I've been following the project and have noted this as well. Curious that they calling the project Evacuated Tube Transport, though...
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThe hyperloop is a different concept than the one used by ET3, which Musk is not affiliated with.
- arrrg 13y agoWhy is it so expensive?
- InclinedPlane 13y agoCalifornia politics.
- jffry 13y agoLand rights. High-speed trains cannot travel in tight turns, so to build SF<->LA requires pretty specific right-of-way purchases.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoNope. Total cost of lease/purchase of all land in the right-of-way is estimated at $1.5 billion for the initial operating section and $4 billion (inclusive) for the full phase 1 system (this is only about 6-7% of the total cost), by far the biggest expenditures are for construction and in operational overhead.