Why has the much hyped hyperloop been scaled back to a Tesla-in-a-tunnel? No doubt many readers will be familiar with the RAND concept for an underground Rapid Transit System and the persistent rumours that the weird rattles and booms coming from underground across the US are a result of either the shuttles in operation or the construction of new tunnel sections. If this is so, then Musk may have been quietly told “no way jose!” to a rival publicly accessible system.

by Martin Harris, 1/6/19

Elon Musk has been widely mocked after revealing the final version of his much-hyped underground transportation project. The Tesla and SpaceX founder’s Boring Company has been building a prototype tunnel system under Los Angeles since 2016 in a bid to relieve traffic congestion.It had been linked to the billionaire’s futuristic “hyperloop” concept of pods suspended on magnets travelling hundreds of kilometres an hour through vacuum tubes. While The Boring Company’s test tunnel did not feature an air vacuum, it promised to create a new kind of private, public and commercial transport system using special vehicles propelled on electric skates. That concept has now been ditched in favour of a more conventional solution — a car in a tunnel. A video released by The Boring Company on Friday shows dashcam footage of a Tesla Model X travelling up to 200km/h through the now-paved tunnel…Asked why the original idea had been abandoned, Musk replied: “This is simple and just works.” Another user suggested tunnels were “great things to run trains through, not cars”. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12234921

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop plans have left some fans less than enthusiastic. Photo/Getty Images.

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And here’s the “real deal”:

1971

The Very High Speed Transit System.

By: Robert M. Salter

Description of a very high speed transit (VHST) system operating in its own rarefied atmosphere in evacuated tubes in underground tunnels. Most cases considered took less time to go coast-to-coast (e.g., 21 min) than it takes an aircraft to climb to an efficient operating altitude. VHST’s tubecraft ride on, and are driven by, electromagnetic (EM) waves. In accelerating, it employs the energy of the surrounding EM field; in decelerating, it returns most of this energy to the system. Tunnel systems would be shared by oil, water, and gas pipelines; channels for laser and microwave waveguides; electric power lines including superconducting ones; and freight systems. Environmental and economic benefits are substantial, and the technology for building and operating the system exists. 17 pp.

RAND Document No: P-4874 Year: 1972 Pages: 17

Title: The Very High Speed Transit System.

Author(s): Robert M. Salter

Keywords: Air pollution; City planning; Pollution; Urban transportation

Cover Price: $20.00



1971

The Very High Speed Transit System.

By: Robert M. Salter

Description of a very high speed transit (VHST) system operating in its own rarefied atmosphere in evacuated tubes in underground tunnels. Most cases considered took less time to go coast-to-coast (e.g., 21 min) than it takes an aircraft to climb to an efficient operating altitude. VHST’s tubecraft ride on, and are driven by, electromagnetic (EM) waves. In accelerating, it employs the energy of the surrounding EM field; in decelerating, it returns most of this energy to the system. Tunnel systems would be shared by oil, water, and gas pipelines; channels for laser and microwave waveguides; electric power lines including superconducting ones; and freight systems. Environmental and economic benefits are substantial, and the technology for building and operating the system exists. 17 pp.

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Remember guys, this was all feasible and discussed openly in the early 1970s…so where did it go? Musk is backpedaling on doing this despite all his resources and backing, almost half a century later!

There are even stories that were circulating in 2011 (which should be taken with sensible discernment) that the Washington earthquake of that year, and subsequent strange sounds phenomena, were caused either by a nuclear accident or deliberate attack/sabotage in these tunnels!

A frightening foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU )report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over the past nearly 36 hours the vast intercontinental military tunnel complex constructed by the United States Air force over the past nearly 45 years was hit with two powerful nuclear explosions at its main terminuses in Colorado and Virginia used nearly exclusively by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). According to this report, this unprecedented nuclear attack began on the evening of 22 August when one of the main air pressure relief tunnels for this CIA tunnel, located at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida, was forced open allowing millions of cubic feet of air to rush suddenly into the atmosphere. The unique sound of this event was captured by video [3rd video] during a baseball game being played at Tropicana Field near MacDill, though US officials blamed the “mystery noise” on a faulty sound system . http://www.wikistrike.com/article-seisme-usa-russia-todayparle-d-une-explosion-nucleaire-in-english-82395408.html

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