Originally posted by gunnut
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NASA shrugged him aside when he first came onto the scene, and today SpaceX seems to be leaving NASA in the dust.
They told him that it was not possible to build a plausibly competitive electric car, and he's left many of his early critics in the dust with the Tesla Model S.
Now, he claims that he's got a faster, cheaper and safer alternative to the proposed $10 billion USD California high-speed rail project, and I'm not going to brush him aside.
Musk is usually the one to put his money where his mouth is: Musk announces plans to build Hyperloop demonstrator
I can tell you how this will fail.
1. environmentalists
2. farmers
3. consumer safety advocates
We can't even build a pipeline that transports oil at low speed. Environmentalists will ask for study after study to make sure not a fly will be hurt by this rail line, and then will sue for more studies.
Farmers will not give up their land. Good luck buying up all the land needed to build this line.
1. environmentalists
2. farmers
3. consumer safety advocates
We can't even build a pipeline that transports oil at low speed. Environmentalists will ask for study after study to make sure not a fly will be hurt by this rail line, and then will sue for more studies.
Farmers will not give up their land. Good luck buying up all the land needed to build this line.
As for environmentalists; as one of my professors used to say; all they need is to "accidentally" flip over a couple of oil bogeys to show the environmentalists how much better of an option a pipeline truly is.
If you think airline security is tough, what's gonna happen when someone sabotages an object traveling at 800 mph carrying hundreds of passengers, literally within reach of someone standing on the ground? Or how about just an accident? There's lots of room in the sky in case if a jetliner needs more space. This thing traveling at 800 mph within a tube?
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