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Just Chat! / Re: Elon Musk's HyperLoop - Big Crunch ?
« on: 31/07/2020 17:01:11 »
Yeah, the biggest issue is that you can not - at all - build it in a zone with the slightest seismic risk. That's why one of the biggest, heavy duty tunnels joins France and the UK under the Channel; it's one of the calmest zones in terms of tectonic and volcanic activity. So, if you're excluding all of Japan, California, Korea, Beijing, Italy, and other places, you're losing lots of potential markets, and the ones that aren't excluded may still be wary of that kind of project; for example, Moscow has already a large and efficient metro, and Paris cannot build things too deep underground because of the soil.
Most of Germany could do the trick. I had spent most of last year doing insurance quotes for a big part of this property in Germany, and seismic risks were among the things I took into account, but there are already efficient mass transport services there, that are not as fast as Hyperloop, but that are good enough and replacing them wouldn't justify the billions and billions of euros the project would cost.
Most of Germany could do the trick. I had spent most of last year doing insurance quotes for a big part of this property in Germany, and seismic risks were among the things I took into account, but there are already efficient mass transport services there, that are not as fast as Hyperloop, but that are good enough and replacing them wouldn't justify the billions and billions of euros the project would cost.