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[biguc]

Build it under hydro pylons. I'm glad you can come up with reasons nothing should ever change but this is a technology worth keeping an eye on because it could fundamentally change Canada for the better in the next 20 years. Much like, at one point, paving roads and building sewers did.

[Treesplease]

The initial infrastructure costs would be massive. The size of tube required would be significantly bigger than even the largest diameter oil pipeline. Anything travelling at 700 mph plus would need to be extremely flat and straight or the g-forces would kill any organism inside the tube. This straight and flat requirment would make infrastructure costs massive. Cars have to be able to cross this big ass piece of pipe at street level and countless rural roads in between cities - you can't just drive over uncontrolled crossings like you do with rail tracks. And even if the marginal cost of operating once complete was pennies per passenger mile, the revenues required to cover the initial costs would be huge. Not unlike the cost of proprietary pharmaceuticals; you aren't paying for the material in a little pill, you are paying for the billions in sunk costs to develop and bring to market. And even if it was cheap to build, would the prices charged be less than air travel that takes longer and delivers you to an external airport or would there be premium pricing that charged more than air travel? It isn't the time that currently prevents anyone but CEO's from commuting great distances - its the cost. You won't be able to live in Winnipeg and work at a 7-11 in Regina.......ever (not counting Star Trek transporter rooms though - they look like they would be cheap with few barriers to entry by new participants to drive costs down)

[Cyro]

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk...n-reality-it-would-be-100-billion-2013-8

"But the New York Times did us all a favor by calculating the true cost of the Hyperloop: It's going to be ~$100 billion."

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by Treesplease

The initial infrastructure costs would be massive. The size of tube required would be significantly bigger than even the largest diameter oil pipeline. Anything travelling at 700 mph plus would need to be extremely flat and straight or the g-forces would kill any organism inside the tube. This straight and flat requirment would make infrastructure costs massive. Cars have to be able to cross this big ass piece of pipe at street level and countless rural roads in between cities - you can't just drive over uncontrolled crossings like you do with rail tracks. And even if the marginal cost of operating once complete was pennies per passenger mile, the revenues required to cover the initial costs would be huge. Not unlike the cost of proprietary pharmaceuticals; you aren't paying for the material in a little pill, you are paying for the billions in sunk costs to develop and bring to market. And even if it was cheap to build, would the prices charged be less than air travel that takes longer and delivers you to an external airport or would there be premium pricing that charged more than air travel? It isn't the time that currently prevents anyone but CEO's from commuting great distances - its the cost. You won't be able to live in Winnipeg and work at a 7-11 in Regina.......ever (not counting Star Trek transporter rooms though - they look like they would be cheap with few barriers to entry by new participants to drive costs down)

Good analysis. Even farmers would go wild if their field swere cut in two by a big pipe. Farmers can drive their combines right under hydro lines. I do agree that it is a promising technology for busy corridors between large population centres.

[Treesplease]

Originally Posted by Cyro

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk...n-reality-it-would-be-100-billion-2013-8

"But the New York Times did us all a favor by calculating the true cost of the Hyperloop: It's going to be ~$100 billion."

I've driven on I-5 and other than controlled access it is about as straight and flat as the No.1 between Winnipeg and Regina. Highways are basically built to the contours of the earth, going up and down hills and around obstacles with curves. Anything that followed the contours of the I-5 median would have a max speed of about 100 mph before it started to uncomfortably bounce anything inside off the inside of the tube.

[biguc]

That's why it would be built on pylons, in that case.

[bomberguy]

Damnitt!

[Cyro]

Always entertaining...
Can you identify the poster looking at the Avatar..lol..


http://boardreader.com/fp/SkyscraperPage_Forum_12795/Manitoba_Saskatchewan_1001284.html

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[Cyro]

^ Esquire you are a posting machine..

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Cyro

^ Esquire you are a posting machine..

I'm on hot hot fyah!

[harls]

Originally Posted by Urban recluse

Lol, no problem. I take it you have a connection to our city?

I'm from MB originally. Glad to see things like this happening in Winnipeg.

(forgive the lateness of my reply)

[Urban recluse]

Ever consider moving back?

[1ajs]

pritty sure hes got himself a nice cushy caree not worth tossing away over

[LilZebra]

[QUOTE=1ajs;7402196]Pretty sure he's got himself a nice cushy career not worth tossing away over./QUOTE]

Yes, respect his choice to move.

I remember decades ago a brand of ketchup, Aylmer's.

I guess Heinz must have bought them out a while back.

[Urban recluse]

Relax people. Wow, I simply asked a question; it was not a demand.

[jmt18325]

You can still get Alymer ketchup.

[esquire]

Harls, ketchup magnate

[LilZebra]

[bomberjet]

I wonder how Harls feels about the great Canadian ketchup controversy of 2016. haha

[Cyro]

Come back to us Harls...

Hugh Laurie, I'm glad you went back to his avatar..