archited
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As I have said before on several occasions Hyperloop's propulsion system is Maglev.
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Gronk!
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TransPod aimed for speed but points to province's rail plan for pause in building test track
The Toronto-based company that gained welcome from the provincial government in 2020 to test and build a hyperloop that would travel at 1,000 kilometres per hour between Edmonton and Calgary said it now hopes to construct a full-scale test guideway in Edmonton in 2026, after pausing for the...
edmonton.taproot.news
YEG imagineer
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TransPod just die already. HSR is the winner for speed, not some theoretical vacuum tube that hasn’t been built anywhere else .
Edmcowboy11
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Knowing that there is bullet train technology ready and available, it just needs to be built, is enough for me to side with conventional HSR rather than Hyperloop.
Now if a hyperloop were to be built before a HSR gets built and it proves how amazing it is supposed to be, then I'll change my mind. But I'll put it this way, when I was at Expo 86 in Vancouver there was the HSST Maglev train being showcased. I rode the short track that they were running that maglev car. They said that tech was coming soon and was going to change transportation as we know it, Well that was in 1986 and there are only 6 operational maglev lines running worldwide. Comparatively there a way many more HSR lines around the world.
wormwood
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Two Canadian steel companies:
www.ctvnews.ca
Company aiming to build Alberta hyperloop secures steel partnership
The Canadian company looking to build a high-speed electric vehicle line between Alberta’s two largest cities announced Thursday it has entered an agreement with two steel suppliers for the project.
www.ctvnews.ca
SMayo
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where does Transpod get their funding? I’m almost scared to find out how much the AB gov has given them for a concept that’s never been built anywhere and likely never will.
YEG imagineer
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Likely an MOU at best. Shysters. I wish the Journal would get credible companies instead of a never built anywhere technology company
Coprolite
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Well, given that their steel needs for the foreseeable future is negligible, this seems like more of a vibe than a tangible.Two Canadian steel companies:
Company aiming to build Alberta hyperloop secures steel partnership
The Canadian company looking to build a high-speed electric vehicle line between Alberta’s two largest cities announced Thursday it has entered an agreement with two steel suppliers for the project.
Coprolite
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They claim to have received over $680 billion in venture capital funding which is less than 10% of their highly optimistic estimates for build costs. Thankfully, the province didn't actually fund them. They did give it a veneer of legitimacy though, which is bad enough.
wormwood
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At the very least, hopefully we get the test portion completed, which is Downtown to the airport. I wouldn't be upset with that.
SMayo
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Im also building a hyperloop if anyone wants to invest a few billion.
I’ve got about the same chance of getting it built.
I’ve got about the same chance of getting it built.
Coprolite
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Well, that's a short enough of a distance that it doesn't need to actually meet any of its performance targets because it will never hit even a scant fraction of its claimed top speed, and if we want a weird nonstandard gadgetbahn that's hard to source replacement equipment for, we might as well as just build a maglev and not have to worry about the whole issue of getting people in and out of pods in vacuum. Or electrified regional rail and have fast, high capacity airport connections with no weird gadgetbahn issues at all.
For that matter, even for Edmonton to Calgary, the concept offers negligible advantages over extant maglev. Like if you somehow manage to get a perfectly straight ROW, you'll only shave a few minutes off in exchange for much lower capacity and higher complexity and all of the issues of getting passengers in and out of pods in vacuum.
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Coprolite
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Edmcowboy11
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All I will say is best of luck. If 20 years from now I step onto this Hyperloop to go to Calgary or somewhere further, I will be the first to admit that I didn't have hopes of it happening.