Toronto-Montreal Corridor A Top Candidate For A Hyperloop
Hyperloop is a technology promoted by Tesla founder Elon Musk which would place passengers and cargo in a cylindrical vehicle which accelerates via electric propulsion through a low-air-pressure tube, suspended above the track using magnetic levitation. The vehicles are expected to glide at airline speeds for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.
Warning 1: Elon Musk, gov’t leech numero uno.
Warning 2: A really long vacuum tube using magnetic levitation.
Warning 3: The same speed as an aircraft.
Let some other gov’t dupe their taxpayers into this.
If I absolutely must go to Montreal, I don’t wish to get there that fast anyway. (is Musk going for the ‘suck on the government teat’ record or has he already won that title?)
Where do they plan to place this? you may have noticed there there is no free land to put this on… and the reason that train service sucks between Toronto and Montreal is because passengers aren’t worth as much money as freight.
You expect Quebec to approve a pipeline?
Honestly, I am betting Brad Wall has already had meetings about this. 50% unreliable energy by 2030 dude; seems like a good fit.
I am up for protesting a pipeline Quebec wants.
Why does that Simpson’s monorail episode come immediately to mind?
We’ve seen this show before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Devil’s Advocate on this one.
I was on the 401 yesterday from the 416 to Young Street in T.O. and back again. 5.5 hrs in both directions from Ottawa to T.O.
The majority of vehicles on the road were trucks. In T.O. they were three lanes wide, slow ones passing slower ones passing even slower ones. In the other lanes if you were traveling at less than 120 kph you would be run over.
Around 5pm I saw the backup at the construction lane restriction on westbound just past 416 interchange and it was at least 2 kilometers long, mostly trucks. Glad I was going the other way. I had gone through there at around 7am, and it wasn’t bad at all.
If hyperloop for goods transport works, it would be worth a fortune.
Train corridor already exists, is it usable?
A grifter is a grifter is a grifter.
I wonder how many coal & nuclear power plants a 100 mile track needs to work.
First thing I did was checked to see if my wallet was still there.
I hope they build it, and a loop to Halifax too, cost is of absolutely no concern. 10x the ex federal gun registry? how about 100x the ex federal gun registry? who cares! All built by union labor too I hope.
after the west separates.
after the west separates…
… not sarcasm.
How long do you think it would take to build the hyperloop from Oshawa to brockville if you used the existing freight lines? How much do you think that would cost?
How much power do you think that will use to carry freight (freight is heavy, very very heavy).
I wouldn’t worry. With the Tesla’s production problems no one is going to fall for another of Elon Musk’s pies in the sky … Oh sh*t, wait, who’s Prime Minister right now?
Hey, better you guys than us here in the U.S.!!
More likely, Ottawa to Montreal, just for Librano MPs.
olde Musk Oil is building damn large batteries, just for this!!!!!
A 150 year old idea.
https://youtu.be/sd58w0CXQrM
Musk knows the sweet spot.
You get the government to get some skin in game on the big shiny thing that is too good to pass up and once locked in is too big to fail then you let them panic when it doesn’t look like it’s going to produce even a fraction of what was expected when election time rolls around.
Dupes? Selfie Socks is the perfect example of PT Barnum’s greatest quote, with LIEberal voters second
I have no doubt that something like this could be built at a cost that would create affordable public transport.
On the other hand, I have no doubt that the government will insert itself into the process and guarantee that it cannot be done without costs that prohibit its viability.
Or you could put passengers and cargo in a hollow cylindrical tube with wings on it and accelerate it through the low pressure air found at high altitude using proven turbofan engines at airline speeds for long distances . . . hey wait a minute!
I’m just waiting for Elon Musk to dream up the SuperDuperLooper which will have in it a SuperDuperLoo.
This assumes people in Montreal and Toronto want to visit each other 🙂
“Just for Librano MPs.”
If they could get in but not out, it would be worth the money.
a huge mail tube.
If hyperloop for goods transport works, it would be worth a fortune.
I still don’t understand why airship freight isn’t a thing. It’s not feasible for inner-city transport, but city to city should be a no brainer.
Hi, I have a great idea!
Does it work?
No, not yet, it just needs money.
How much?
That’s the best thing about the idea, we don’t know! You just keep giving us more and more.
And then it will work?
Maybe.
No thanks.
LUDDITE!
back in the sci fi era of large public engineering projects, we were supposed to travel in similar tunnels deep underground for great distances, the propulsion getting topped up by gravity. how it was supposed to continue ‘boosting’ the propulsion when you passed the halfway mark and started going on the ‘up’ portion was never explained.
I guess mr musk has it figured out and expects a huge increase in tesla stock price once he decides to share it with us.
oooooorrrr, could be the ‘explanation’ causes a gigantic DROP in stock price.
the key syllable in ‘hyperloop’ is ‘hype’.
Think for just one minute on what it would take to ensure you have a 99% real vacuum in a tube that is at least 80-100 ft in diameter and 450k long..?? LMAO…good Luck on that.
I have seen the effects on 1/2″ thick 30′ tall steel circular storage tanks that encountered negative air pressure….they crumbled like newspaper. this is an idea that should crumble as well….
I guess you could build it underground. Hmm lets see, how long would it take to tunnel 450km through the Canadian shield.??
Its just Trillions after all….ahh, I know, we need more in-migration, there’s the ticket. “More Hard Working” migrants to pay more taxes. lmao…What a country
This will be so great! Hmmm, but but maybe its more of a Shelbyville project.
I have no doubt that something like this could be built at a cost that would create affordable public transport.
On the other hand, I have no doubt that the government will insert itself into the process and guarantee that it cannot be done without costs that prohibit its viability.