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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by mikeyouse on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @11:18PM (#11031948)
The test track is too short to get up to full speed so the compressors wouldn't provide any functionality at this scale.
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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by IIAOPSW on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @11:22PM (#11031960)
Right but then what's the point. That you can run a maglev in a tunnel?
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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by pinktennisballs on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:19AM (#11032170)
Evacuated tunnel. And actually it is a big deal considering the speed of travel which presents new problems. Also all designs are focused on scalability of system
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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by kuschku on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:49AM (#11032268)
But then stop calling it Hyperloop, and call it the VacTrain it is.

Nothing revolutionary, has existed for many decades as concept.

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