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Originally Posted by guyladouche 
May be the case, except it's far less efficient (as presented) for mass travel. You can pack 800+ people in a trans-oceanic flight, but I wonder how many people you can transport at a time with this tech. If it's only like 10 at a time and you can't multiplex the tube usage very easily then it's not a great choice--if you need to build 80 tubes to match the simultaneous capacity of one plane, then where does the cost fit in?
I'm curious--being 1/10 the cost of trains, does that break down to cost per passenger being less to operate too? Transporting 6-8 people at a time, how many pods can you pack into a tube at a time for a single destination? If it's 1/10 of the total people that can be transported on a high-speed rail, I'm not seeing the benefit.
I think it's an interesting idea, but there seem to still be a lot of physical and/or practical limitations to its use/adoption. Either that, or I'm not quite getting enough info from the video.
May be the case, except it's far less efficient (as presented) for mass travel. You can pack 800+ people in a trans-oceanic flight, but I wonder how many people you can transport at a time with this tech. If it's only like 10 at a time and you can't multiplex the tube usage very easily then it's not a great choice--if you need to build 80 tubes to match the simultaneous capacity of one plane, then where does the cost fit in?
I'm curious--being 1/10 the cost of trains, does that break down to cost per passenger being less to operate too? Transporting 6-8 people at a time, how many pods can you pack into a tube at a time for a single destination? If it's 1/10 of the total people that can be transported on a high-speed rail, I'm not seeing the benefit.
I think it's an interesting idea, but there seem to still be a lot of physical and/or practical limitations to its use/adoption. Either that, or I'm not quite getting enough info from the video.
This would be an amazing revolution because of all the possibilities that it opens up. Large meetings of the g8 and g20 would beable to happen in less than 4 hours if needed to help deal with massive world crisis (terrorists get ahold of a nuke?) it would cut down on emissions imensly if it was used for shipping goods across land and the oceans instead of using trucks and cargo ships. LNG might become more practical and less dangerous to transport because of the enclosed nature of this type of transportation. Another huge advantage would be the decentralization of medicine. Instead of every hospital having to generalize, they could specialize in one specific thing because traveling half way across the country would take less than a half hour instead of the many hours it takes now. I would also allow highly skilled doctors to be much more efficient because they could do a operation in seattle, then be in Toronto for another in an hour, travel to japan/Europe to give a lecture and still be home in time for dinner.The implementation of this.would allow massive advancements in many different ways, all of them good.
(sorry for the random periods, I'm typing this on my tablet and its a pain in the but)
