See the name of the community? When our energy generation capacity becomes way way larger, when our material science becomes way way advanced, when we already have existing hsr networks around the world, Hyperloops would be an upgrade.

Building a Hyperloop would be really cool. Just not now.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, not really, even with all those advances.

No, not even for freight.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have watched both of these videos dozens of times. So I'll say this again:

Video 1

Everything Adam says about Elon Musk, how expensive Hyperloops are, why we should focus on building HSRs and so on is correct. This video makes perfect sense for TODAY.

However, building a Hyperloop doesn't break physics. It's an engineering challenge. Like fusion, or human flight (before we mastered it).

Video 2

Yes, speed isn't as beneficial to freight travel as it is to passenger travel. That being said, it doesn't mean that it has no benefits at all. If it had no benefits, why did we switch for 100% wind propelled sailboats to oil powered ships for trans Atlantic travel? The reason is simple - speed. Why does air freight even exist when we can ship everything using ships?

A benefit of faster freight is supply chains that adapt a lot quicker. Take Covid for example. During Covid, supply chains required A LOT of time to adjust to the sudden changes in supply and demand everywhere. One of the biggest reasons here was because of the sheer amount of time it takes for a container to get from A to B on a ship.

Slow freight transportation works perfectly when there are no sudden changes in supply and demand. When there are though, they kinda go for a toss.

[–] flyingSock@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

The switch to steam was not just speed. More important than speed is to reliably arrive when expected. Which modern freight does (by and large). The few cases where speed is actually needed probably wont be enough to finance an entirely new transport medium, but we will see.

[–] alehc 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah fair enough, it would be great.

[–] mcmodknower@programming.dev 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you deal with the continental drift?

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It comes with a 10 million year warranty.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Simple. Never spend any money on a disaster of a project like this.

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this sounds like one of Eloons stupid ideas...

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, he was on Xitter saying he can do it 1000 times cheaper.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Great for him! He better get digging (or swimming) then. We'll pay when we feel like it, just like he did for twitter's offices.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Newsweek over here pretending they’re Popular Science.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

At least Popular Science is intended to be fantastical at times. Newsweek just pretends... At anything

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lol

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

We have a tunnel at home