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Old Posted Aug 29, 2020, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by acottawa View Post
More of a 2 isn’t it? None of the “tests” have actually tested the thing hyper loop is supposed to do (they have either not been in a vacuum or at ridiculously low speeds for ridiculously short distances). It would be like calling the Goddard experiments of the 1920s a test of the Saturn V.
I was being extremely generous.....

But yes, this thing is not close to any level of deployment and it's highly offensive that Hyperloop fanatics like to pretend it's just a few years away, if we just put a little research money into it. It can decades to go from TRL 4 to TRL 8 sometimes. Especially if the business case collapses, as is happening for Hyperloop.
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