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Hyperloop One Announces Opening of Its First Manufacturing Plant (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Hyperloop One is today announcing the opening of its first manufacturing plant. Called Hyperloop One Metalworks, the 105,000 square-foot building in North Las Vegas will be the new professional home of many of the company's 170 employees, including engineers, machinists and welders. These folks will build and test a number of components for the DevLoop, a full-system prototype of the Hyperloop, set for testing in 2017. The project, if successful, promises a half-hour travel time between Stockholm and Helsinki, which is the equivalent of about 300 miles. The company plans to have a working prototype of the Hyperloop by 2017 thanks to this new plant."Hyperloop One Metalworks is the first Hyperloop manufacturing plant in the world," said co-founder and President of Engineering Josh Giegel in a press release. "The ability to have a world-class machine shop in-house gives us an advantage to build rapidly and develop the Hyperloop in real-time."
But what about cheap outsourced labor???
300 miles = 482 kilometers.
Incidentally, 482 km in 30 minutes is about 960 km/h. Not bad!
....just like the Segway did.
I just watched this video debunking the feasibility of the Hyperloop.
We actually have an honest-to-god manufacturing facility built in the United States and it's within spitting distance of the Gigafactory. Nevada's kickbacks must be premium.
The whole "Hyperloop" thing is a ridiculous joke that will never, EVER be built.
It has so many technical problems and downsides that it's not possible for me to state them here succinctly, but for a complete takedown of this bullshit pie-in-the-sky idea, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"All the problems of deep space travel, bought down to the surface of the planet, such that you can travel about the speed of a bullet within a couple of cm of a gun barrel.
Sadly almost no one in the main stream media assessed this stuff critically from a scientific/ engineering point of view. They just took them at their word when they said they could construct the completely untested large scale hyperloop for 1/10th the cost of a regular high speed rail connection. They took them at their word when they said it would only cost 20 bux, and take on 25 minutes.
In reality the engineering problems are probably insurmountable. It would be like proposing a floating roadway across the Mediterranean or something."
The whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and shame on the engineering people who failed to do even the most cursory examination of this impossible "project".
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Might as well open a manufacturing plant for perpetual motion machines. Its so ludicrous on so many levels with anyone with a basic knowledge of science.
It's too bad that the entire concept is completely LUDICROUS.
Jeeze Louise
Hyperloop One does hyperbole in their press release.
They got a big building to work in. Good for them. It might have been a production facility for a previous occupant but it is not a Hyperloop One production facility. Instead it is an engineering design shop. You need a product and production to turn a building into a production facility.
Exaggeration in technology development press releases turns me off entirely. I understand the PR benefit in doing this, but if "engineering development shop" becomes "first production facility" what other stuff is being similarly inflated? Schedule? funding? market analysis?
If you have early stage cool stuff that shows promise with a good potential market, and a pretty good chance for adequate funding you have no need to exaggerate.
So why the attempt at deception?
Three different people posting the same Youtube link to the same babbling jackass.
You people do realize that Elon Musk had actual rocket scientists working on the original Hyperloop paper, right? Whether or not Mr. Musk's own physics degree is worth anything or not, the degrees of his employees definitely are, or SpaceX rockets wouldn't fly. They did modeling of vacuum evacuation of the tube. They did modeling of stresses on a basic pylon, using the same software they use to model the stresses on SpaceX rockets. They did modeling of the capsule. The math and engineering have been vetted pretty seriously. At least, the original version.
Whether or not Hyperloop One's version has enjoyed the same degree of scrutiny by people who have been demonstrated not to drop a decimal place I don't know, but regardless, you can stop linking to the babbling fool.
The fundamental flaws of Hyperloop are political, not physical. The link proposed between SF and LA will never be built because it would have followed the highway, which would deny the Right People the opportunity to get rich off of real estate speculation, the way the Not Very High Speed Rail project is allowing.
Where's the Egon oh-so Musky guy?
All that shows up here are cows and apps.
Notice Elon Musk said "California" High speed rail, and not a generic high speed rail line. China could build a high speed rail line cheaper than California can. The US sucks at building infrastructure on a budget.
I don't know who was foolish enough to invest money in hyperloop. I just hope they don't con the US govt into spending money on it. Germany and Japan spent over 2 decades developing their maglevs.
...a half-hour travel time between Stockholm and Helsinki, which is the equivalent of about 300 miles.
"The equivalent of about 300 miles"? What does that mean?
Oh, it means "about 300 miles". Or even "a distance of about 300 miles". Right. But this is a 'technical' topic, so we need to use more and bigger words. The best words.
Unless there's some sort of weird space-time physical equivalence principle the authors are alluding to, in which case a half hour is actually 300 miles long.
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in America on a fibre roll out that never happened and nobody has the balls to ask for our money back. So you're forgive me if I'm not in even the tinciest bit surprised shit like this can fly. The loans will be private with public guarantees and we'll all eat it like we eat sports Colosseums.
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The fundamental idea was to use air cushion for vactrain, which is well known by now. This is just another instance of that. Real news would be if a new principle were to be announced... but hey, maybe will be one of the first instances of this idea :)
There was prison labor involved in the battery factory and other things Musk has done in Nevada. That makes it illegal to use derived products in most of the EU with Sweden and Finland at the top of the list of countries that will not tolerate any prison labor.
If I recall corectly, Hyperloop one is building a Maglev train in a vacuum tube, not a "hovercraft" in a low pressure tube. This company should really be called Maglev one, since it is not in fact constructing hyperloops. Nothing new here. I would be curious to hear about the technology behind Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, it seems to me that it's regular hyperloop tech.
See, we stick you in this train car kinda thing, then we stick it into a pipe, like a pipeline "pig". Then we fire the car at 600 MPH through the pipe for a few hundred miles and you pop out at the other end. Totally awesome! I know!
Who's first?
Up next: Suicide booths.
Is this not the same Hyperloop One that is having massive political infighting right now, with lawsuits being slung back and forth and serious management shenanigans?
I hope the employees of this factory are getting paid very well for the employment uncertainty they're facing.
I like how the distance between 2 cities is "the equivalent of about 300 miles".
Why isn't is 'about 300 miles?
I don't know from unobtainium, but doesn't it bother anyone else that the Hyperloop is not really a loop?
A loop is more like a circle than a line, and if you take it in one direction you'll eventually arrive back at your starting point. Everything I've ever heard about the hyperloop just has it running directly from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
I mean, I guess you could ride it from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then back, but there's a bunch of roads that do the same thing, and we don't call them loops. They're just, I don't know, duplexed. Like regular roads are.
Have they figured out how:
(1) To make a tube that sags just a few millimeters between pylons? Hint: A 1-inch thick steel tube sags several inches between those pylons.
(2) How to get people into space suits? Even the Air Force doesn't let pilots, even in wartime, sit in a plane at 70,000 feet without a space suit.
(3) How to get a common-carrier license, for a vehicle and tube without emergency exits?
Those are all pretty hard show-stoppers, and they seem to be working on everything but.