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Hyperloop, the biggest Scam since Theranos (Patreon)

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2020-08-10 15:12:58
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 Hyperloop believers are a devoted bunch! 

The usual lifecycle of a 'busted' scam goes like this….

Firstly it gets massively popular… 

I make a busting video showing, typically with some pretty fundamental science, why what is promised cannot be delivered.

-At this point there are usually some reactionary ‘thunderf00t cant science’ type videos that come out. These typically age VERY badly. I remember back with solar roadways there was some guy who was convinced I was wrong about almost everything with solar roadways.

After a year or two and the vaporware really hasn’t progressed beyond grandiose empty promises, the hype starts to ring more hollow, and it loses traction in the mainstream media.

Hyperloop really doesn’t seem like this though. It pops up every 6 months or so to a great media storm about how the future of transport is almost here.

The fact that the idea is over a hundred years old, and the reason we still haven’t built one today is the same as the reason we hadn’t built one of the last 100 years, doesn’t seem to bother the hyper merchants at all.

At some point though, the hype train will crash. People will look at the hundreds of millions of dollars will want to see ACTUAL results, not just more computer simulations.

That’s not yet though, at the moment there are hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the hyperloop!!!

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Comments

Morning Coffee

Are you going to look back and take appart Shane Killian's videos "debunking" your take on the hyperloop. It would be great to see.

Anonymous

I think I already watch this particular busted video a few days ago. Did youtube ban it again or am I going dementia already?

Anonymous

get rid of track locked trains - the hyperloop just will be tunnel-locked ...

Stuart Castle

I like to laugh at the Hyperloop publicity videos.. They always say it will cost a fraction of what a conventional railway would cost to build. They neglect to mention how, bearing in mind the largest cost in building any conventional rail lines is building the track, with electrical cabling, and signalling. Hyperloop still needs all three, unless you are planning to run one train on the system, just back and forth. Even if the system is entirely powered by Solar (and I have doubts the panels they can fit on top of the tubes could generate enough power to power the train), the panels still need wiring, and other hardware installed. The other things they like to say are that tickets will be cheap, and the pods will be luxurious, and have few passengers. These are mutually exclusive. Public transport is relatively cheap (although anyone who has tried to buy an intercity ticket in the UK would disagree with that) because they bung as many people as physically possible in each vehicle. Now, they could make up the losses with Venture Capital. I think they probably are, and I also think this is undesirable for the consumer. It would be a good deal at the start, as you could get on a train, be comfortable for an hour or so, then get off the train in another country for the price of a conventional train ticket. What about when they've bankrupted the competition. Venture Capitalists are going to want their investment back with profits. Watch the ticket prices explode. A final note: Testing. Any new train is tested for hundreds of thousands of miles to test things like safety, reliability and comfort. Even new train lines have test trains run over them for months to ensure there are no problems. Hyperloop are saying they will have services running in a few years. The dates they are talking about always seem to be about 2-3 years after they are asked. I would have though if they were 2-3 years from launch, they would have demonstrated that the pods can carry people safely on the test track already (after all, you don't spend billions on building a track for a passenger mass transit system *without* knowing it can carry passengers safely), and they'd be at least halfway through the build.

VitAnyaNaked

Let's hope that all these empty promises will grow into real action, because everyone really expects this!

Tony Hammitt

No matter what else they think they can come up with, it would still be extremely expensive to pump the air out of the tubes and keep it pumped out. They think they can get around thermal expansion by building it underground, but that makes it much more susceptible to earthquakes. And they'd still have to actively heat and/or cool sections of their tubes to keep it all the same length, and that would have to react rapidly as the train goes through. And the tunnel would have to be much bigger than the tube to facilitate inspection and maintenance, as well as sealed up and appropriate ventilation and drainage. The implementation costs and energy requirements of such a system would be absurd. Then, once you've spent 20 million per mile implementing it and a couple million a year maintaining and powering it, you can only have little bitty cars that take a few minutes to load passengers onto and they'd have to stop at each station, just like any other train. And that's stop, enter the airlock, pump the lock up, trade passengers, pump the lock down, then open the other end. Minimum of several minutes, and you'd have to do that at every station, for every car.

Anonymous

I don't understand how this stupidity train is still running when they're already off the rails. Pipedreams don't work (especially vacuum pipedreams). When will they finally drop the ball on this Hyperloop hypershite? Tell y'all something for nothing. If this garbage really has gotten into the European infrastructure projects then it says much about the lack of screening before initiation. 😔