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Colorado Taking Steps To Get Its Own Hyperloop (usatoday.com)
According to USA Today, Colorado's transportation department is looking at the possibility of a Rocky Mountain hyperloop to curb traffic woes. You could travel from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, a distance of about 125 miles with Denver in the middle, in less than 20 minutes. From the report: After partnering with Virgin Hyperloop One, one of the companies racing to develop the super-speed technology that essentially would transport vehicles and people pods on electric skates in a big pneumatic tube, Colorado Department of Transportation officials plan to spend the next nine months crunching the numbers to determine what it might take to bring this type of transit to Colorado. Above-ground routes are cheaper to build. But Musk's Boring Co., another company testing the technology, has been focusing on hyperloop transportation in tunnels. The proposed Rocky Mountain hyperloop would be centered at Denver International Airport and stretch about 100 miles north to Cheyenne, Wyo.; about 125 miles south to Pueblo, Colo.; and about 100 miles west to Vail, Colo. It carries a hefty $24 billion price tag. State transportation officials estimated it would need an initial investment of $3 billion just to get the first 40 miles from the airport north to Greeley, Colo., completed. Why a hyperloop? State officials estimate Colorado's population will grow by nearly 50% in the next 20 years.
One minor difference: we know how to build a Hyperloop. There aren't any new scientific principles at play there, it's only a matter of engineering.
Stargate technology, OTOH, is a bit more nebulous at this point :)
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
'Good YouTube videos on why this will never work. One rifle round or a modest dent can detonate your $60B investment and kill everyone inside instantly. '
Huh? You seem not to understand near vacuum. A hole or a dent will just get to get fixed, just like when a stone, a cow or a tree is on a railway line, with the difference, that a failed vacuum will instantly and automatically reduce the speed of the 'train' and prevent any 'accident' of "running into the bullet-hole" or whatever you think will happen.