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thenewgreen  ·  4166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In-depth criticism of the Hyperloop

    "I'm not going to invest in this (because my peeps told me it was a batshit insane idea) but somebody should (so that if it works I still get credit). It'd totally work, I ran the numbers (based on the fact that I have no expertise in this subject whatsoever). KTHXBYE."
-I actually don't think this is far-fetched at all, I'm inclined to agree with you. If it was worth betting on, he'd have taken that bet.

Still, it's worth having the idea out there and having people talking about it, even if to say "this is crazy... but this tangential idea isn't so crazy..."

But yeah, if it were a fool proof plan, it would be called the TeslaLoop or Loop-X.