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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
All the Boring Company is basically just a twitter account. We're years into it and they have yet to build a single TBM. They have yet to do anything other than buy somebody else's old TBM, dig a short, pointless tunnel, and post pictures of it to Twitter.
It's Theranos. There is no there there.
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Completely agree. A lot of the experts I’ve read talk about the Hyperloop basically say it’s DOA. Technologically it is possible. Practically, not so much. The Hyperloop has to be a straight tube. No curves. You also can’t have stops unless you find a way to safely depressurize the tube at the station without it affecting everything else as well as the various safety features needed to ensure you don’t kill everyone in the tube.
The loop isn’t any better. As far as I am aware, there’s no prototype, yet Musk is building a system for Chicago supposedly under 1 billion dollars and the City isn’t paying a dime for it. That 1bn price tag would equate to 55.5 million/mile, which would be the cheapest tunneling operation in history. It’s close to DOA as well.