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There's also some technological concerns which may make this sort of impossible, if ridiculously difficult, to pursue. Unless Musk has more than meme power to change how research is done, I doubt we'll ever see this be publicly operational in any meaningful scale.

However, I noticed this video makes no mention of the expense?

Although this article Is 5 years old, It gives a pretty good cost breakdown by Elon Musk.

Interesting article. It makes a decent comparison of the costs an speed of other transportation methods like California's bullet train.

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There's also some technological concerns which may make this sort of impossible, if ridiculously difficult, to pursue. Unless Musk has more than meme power to change how research is done, I doubt we'll ever see this be publicly operational in any meaningful scale.

I'm finding myself a little confused in this respect. There's articles claiming they don't need to develop new technologies for this to happen. And then there are many criticisms saying it's technologically impossible. I'm a little lost on how these claims are so different. It's either possible to build now, or it isn't and requires significant further tech development.

Although this article Is 5 years old, It gives a pretty good cost breakdown by Elon Musk.

Interesting article. It makes a decent comparison of the costs an speed of other transportation methods like California's bullet train.

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There's also some technological concerns which may make this sort of impossible, if ridiculously difficult, to pursue. Unless Musk has more than meme power to change how research is done, I doubt we'll ever see this be publicly operational in any meaningful scale.

I'm finding myself a little confused in this respect. There's articles claiming they don't need to develop new technologies for this to happen. And then there are many criticisms saying it's technologically impossible. I'm a little lost on how these claims are so different. It's either possible to build now, or it isn't and requires significant further tech development.

I think it's meant moreso as a pointless endeavor. Is it possible? Technically speaking, yes. In the same way it's possible for you to writhe and slither on the ground to the store, but we can both agree there's another method to get there that would cause you substantially less damage and even get you there faster. The technology we have can, in theory, make the hyperloop possible. However, both the risk and cost is so high that it makes "simpler" modes of transportation just make more sense to opt for. As is obvious, technology is a game of mitigating both risk and cost when compared to yield. The hyperloop, when we consider the yield, falls horrifically short when we compare it to said risk and cost.

The confusion really comes from the fact that we can technically do it, but it's just not worthwhile. We are talking billions of dollars for something that would require more R&D later down the road to make functional enough to be widespread and not simply a very costly experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfYafWFWtk