08/12/2021
The US Infrastructure bill now includes a system that has no standards to support it’s development. This is of course the wrong choice for the people of the United States for many years, especially during a pandemic. The system that was devised by our team at HTT in 2015 is now proposed as a form of future transport for the United States. It is clear that this system as proposed by Elon Musk is a Martian transportation proposal, and as he devised it - horribly inefficient. The pressure in the tube in Elon’s proposal is exactly the offset between Earth and Mars. This system as proposed was a beta test for Mars.
During the development of Hypercor SSR we reviewed many things from my time as head of Integration at HTT, but specifically the load demand required to keep a Hyperloop system equitable, and safely maintained. We determined that there must be a population of around 10 Million people at either end of the system to provide for the economics to support appropriate function of the system.
There are many large questions that evade the announcements made by all system developers and must be clearly addressed before we can possibly allow a Hyperloop to carry anything, let alone people at 320 m/s. Issues such as depressurization, vacuum wetting, and pod malfunction; which would slow the entire system due to one malfunctioning pod. The US needs a far better, and more sustainable solution that must have greater development expansion capability (extensibility).;
There are a few places on the planet that could really use this system to it’s great benefit, however it is far beyond the demands that are represented in the US now and for many generations into the future. Please consider these words as we redevelop our ancient infrastructure.
The US’s rails are 80 years old on average, while most of the rest of the modernized world replace them every 10 to 20 years. The money spent on Hyperloop for Chicago and the East Coast could replace all rails in the US and develop a program to replace them as they should be for safety. The future of transportation should be focused at light infrastructure. With serious guiding regulations that do not allow for the waste of system resources, at this time they would guide the US away from a hard-cased solution that the Hyperloop currently represents.