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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:07PM (#38728998)
Why go underground (expensive 3rd dimension down) when we have the whole 3rd dimension up almost unused? The freight can be trucked by large Zeppelins for example (and electric at that with the most of the energy generated by the solar panels covering the upper surface of the Zeppelin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38017937). The issues are pure engineering ones. These freight Zeppelins can be fully automated, flying around any densely populated places.
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by tedunangst on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:53PM (#38729962)
Just shoot durable goods around with a railgun.
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by thfuran on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:21PM (#38729149)
A train car carries about a kiloton of cargo. How many zeppelins would that take?

Edit: Actually, I can't count. Only a few hundred thousand pounds. That's still probably a bunch of zeppelinworths though.

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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:45PM (#38729365)
Hinderburg-like at 100 ton itself can carry about 120 ton payload, ie. payload of 2 train cars.
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by mynameisnoone on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:57PM (#38729491)
And where does one dock this massive beast in a city with controlled airspace?
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by trhway on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:23PM (#38729722)
In a distribution center outside of the city the cargo is transferred onto local electric Amazon/UPS/etc. delivery trucks/vans.
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by dragonwriter on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:03PM (#38730478)
So, the equivalent of a 100 car freight train would be a 50 Hindenburg zeppelin fleet?
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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by hughesjj on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:55PM (#38730772)
It's actually fairly easy logistically imo

Design the Zeppelin for literal tons of ballast, trade out sandbags/dirtbags for product or waste on docking, andaybe add an aerodynamic shield if you don't care about speed as much

We already sacrifice significant speed for boats, but I grant they're several orders of magnitude better at balancing buoyancy with cargo given they flot in the water rather than atmosphere

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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by mynameisnoone on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:56PM (#38729483)
That cannot operate in wind or inclement weather.
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