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Re:The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape by bodhiandpysics1 on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:19PM (#25088216)
This isn't actually a problem! We build gas pipelines all the time which suffer exactly the same problem. (and no, you don't want gas pipelines to leak!) You can use expansion joints, or grooved couplings that enable movement, and there are other solutions as well. I think the problem that people have is that they assume you need some really intense vacuum for hyperloop to work. .05 bar (the pressure at 60,000 ft) is fine, and so is some leakage into the pipeline, which you just have to pump out.
Re:The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape by bigbubba on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:42PM (#25088443)
Normal pipelines handle large amounts of thermal expansion in a way fundamentally incompatible with hyperloops: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-oil-pipelines-have-so-many-seem...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=expansion+loop&iax=images&ia=image...

Re:The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape by pas on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:45AM (#25091990)
Why would that be fundamentally incompatible?