Boring Company is working on a Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio
twitter.comI got a little lucky when the initial whitepaper was published because there was a top level comment from someone in construction logistics that said something like...
"I can't speak to anything else in here, but the listed costs for the installed concrete is only 10% what it should be. If Elon Musk has found a way to install concrete 10x better than everyone else he shouldn't be building a train, he should be taking over construction globally."
Just an immediate splash of "oh, this is BS" cold water.
It's 73 miles from Austin to San Antonio "as the crow flies". The Vegas Loop took two years to build 1.7 miles of tunnel [1]. So we should expect this to be complete sometime around ~2088.
People still fall for this monorail scheme?
It's the Musk Exception to Betteridge's Law, where the answer is "yes" instead of "no".
Elon may "live" in Texas but he didn't do his homework.
I'd be willing to bet the geography won't allow such a line underground. Texas is full of caverns, oil, and underground gas.
This small physical constraint sits on top of (underneath?) the rest of the reasons it's ridiculous.
I guess it will be ready for the Austin/San Antonio Olympics of 2040.
Musk is still a twat for fucking up Twitter. I loved Twitter and now it is a shit hole.
Sad to see it turning into Facebook.