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Tesla Motors electric car founder Elon Musk has a new high speed air tube idea he's calling "Hyperloop" in the works. Its modeled after the drive-thru banking transaction tubes but bigger and will carry people, not checks and deposit slips. The engineering says it will be four times as fast as high speed rail and (if my fuzzy math is right), less than 1/10th the cost. Imagine a ground transportation grid that's faster than flying, uses no petroleum and actually generates electricity as it operates the has the additional benefit of feeding electricity back to the power grid. (That last part might violate the law on perpetual motion but, we'll see) Fuzzy Math again, but if my calculations are right, he thinks it would get from Los Angeles to New York in about 3 hours. New York to Miami in an hour and a half.
Hyperloop: San Francisco to L.A. in 30 minutes | firstcoastnews.com
Hyperloop: San Francisco to L.A. in 30 minutes | firstcoastnews.com