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The technology is there; the assemblage is not -- hence a test track. Who could be opposed to that?
the technology is there for hsr as well - and to a much higher level than the hyper loop alternative - but as anyone following its assemblage in california can tell you the devil is in the assemblage.The technology is there; the assemblage is not -- hence a test track. Who could be opposed to that?
How so Kenneth?the technology is there for hsr as well - and to a much higher level than the hyper loop alternative
how so???How so Kenneth?
i don't think i'm being misleading using the same terminology that the proponents use and believe both they and i are using the word correctly. a vacuum is practically defined not as being devoid of all matter (which would therefore have zero atmospheric pressure, sometimes referred to as a perfect vacuum) but as any space having a gaseous pressure substantially less than atmospheric pressure. given atmospheric pressure (at sea level) is nominally greater than 100,000 pa and hyperloop proposes an operating environment of less than 100 pa, i'll stand by it. from hyperloop's own website:Ken, you are misleading when you use the word "vacuum" -- there simply needs to be a pressure differential between the leading edge and the tailing edge of the vehicle in the tube. A true vacuum would be a structural improbability if not an impossibility -- the technology is not asking for that...
At least I'm legit. But that's not a conversation for here. I still have manners.To quote Mick Jagger, "Hey you, get off of my cloud". You're not much good at fixing anything with your eristic comments.
Do you really want to go down this?Neither was your previous editing of my comments an effort suitable for here -- so you may have manners, but not many in my books.
aahhh... you were referring to the "next generation hyperloop", not the one that has actually been tested - sort of - or yet proposed anywhere - at least that i'm aware of.Check out the video 12 or 13 posts ago and you can clearly see the 8 actuators (4 front and 4 aft) for the Transpod vehicle -- 4 on lower tracks and 4 on upper tracks. The vacuum is relative too -- you can get 100 Pascals at the leading edge of the vehicle but that does not mean that they require that lack of density throughout the entire tube in the head direction -- that is the part that is misleading.