Elon Musk
There is no way a Mars trip for one man or the million Musk sees in our future make sense. Space is an entirely hostile vacuum, no air environment, shot with lethal radiation, particles ranging from the size of those in smoke or dust to mountainous rocks moving at many thousands of miles per hour. Hit any and you're done in a puff of smoke. While our space probes have made such trips, and greater, they have been small, few and lucky. Musk is talking about sending 10,000 space ships with each carrying 100 people! It is doubtful we have the materials to build, much less supply and fuel that many such rockets.
Musk has sold ideas for many millions of our Dollars and all were goofy. The Tesla car was ridiculous. The prototype had 6,000 rechargeable flashlight cells, went 23 miles and then needed another $184 worth of electricity! Musk has a new battery that is better, but is much more expensive motive power than gasoline or Diesel fuel. A few show-biz morons have bought Musk cars, but it will never be in mass production.
Musk's SpaceX rocket is existing technology; none developed by Musk. His biggest idea, other than dying on Mars, is his new concept transportation system to move people through undergound pneumatic tubes at the speed of sound, 753 miles per hour at sea level!
“This system I have in mind, how would you like something that can never crash, is immune to weather, it goes three or four times faster than the bullet train. It goes an average speed of twice what an aircraft would do. You would go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes. It would cost you much less than an air ticket than any other mode of transport. I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it, you generate more power than you would consume in the system. There’s a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries. Yes, this is possible, absolutely. Elon Musk, July 12, 2012" And, he further continued:
"What you want is something that never crashes, that’s at least twice as fast as a plane, that’s solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time.”
“This system I have in mind, how would you like something that can never crash, is immune to weather, it goes three or four times faster than the bullet train. It goes an average speed of twice what an aircraft would do. You would go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes. It would cost you much less than an air ticket than any other mode of transport. I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it, you generate more power than you would consume in the system. There’s a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries. Yes, this is possible, absolutely. Elon Musk, July 12, 2012" And, he further continued:
"What you want is something that never crashes, that’s at least twice as fast as a plane, that’s solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time.”
People telling you what you want are offensive, but this is vintage Musk: Nonsensical and inconsistent, but politicians give him billions of our Dollars in return for tens of thousands of his to their campaigns and likely more to their offshore number accounts.
His friends claim he had a "Hyperloop" technological breakthrough over the summer. This is utter nonsense as there are so many things that can go wrong in a tube. The accelerations involved are greater than "1 G" and people find that uncomfortable to dangerous, some injurious, some fatal.
“I’d like to talk to the Governor and President about it because the $60 billion bullet train they’re proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They are going for records in all the wrong ways. The cost of the SF-LA Hyperloop would be in the $6 billion range,” Elon Musk - Sept 13, 2012.
We agree with Musk's analysis of Jerry Brown's "bullet train" as no clear path is on a straight line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, not even flat for more than a few miles. Bullet trains do not do curves well. Mountains and canyons define the line and would require the longest tunnels and bridges ever made to get the straight line that high speed rail demands. These trains do not start or stop quickly. They are very high in cost to build, operate, maintain and ride. The existing road and air travel system work well. are economical and free of the kind of corruption we have seen too much of from men like Elon Musk.
We searched for "hyperloop" in patent and engineering databases for over an hour and all we came up for Musk was a pneumatic tube like those of 100 years ago in department stores. He describes people in it being transported at 1,000 to 1,500 miles per hour! In any curve they would be shredded to pieces! Starting and stopping would produce significant injuries. The concept is purely insane.
Mr. Musk did not offer any engineering specifications, data or drawings, just sketches, but he is certain to get money from the Obama gang. They gave him a total of $5 billion in loan guarantees in return for a $110,000 campaign contribution and two really stupid ideas. None of Mr. Musk's enterprises has ever made a Dollar of net profit without Federal program discount, tax benefit or gimmick, but he is listed as a "billionaire." The money they attribute to Leon Musk is yours and mine, or more accurately, it was...
Adrian Vance
His friends claim he had a "Hyperloop" technological breakthrough over the summer. This is utter nonsense as there are so many things that can go wrong in a tube. The accelerations involved are greater than "1 G" and people find that uncomfortable to dangerous, some injurious, some fatal.
“I’d like to talk to the Governor and President about it because the $60 billion bullet train they’re proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They are going for records in all the wrong ways. The cost of the SF-LA Hyperloop would be in the $6 billion range,” Elon Musk - Sept 13, 2012.
We agree with Musk's analysis of Jerry Brown's "bullet train" as no clear path is on a straight line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, not even flat for more than a few miles. Bullet trains do not do curves well. Mountains and canyons define the line and would require the longest tunnels and bridges ever made to get the straight line that high speed rail demands. These trains do not start or stop quickly. They are very high in cost to build, operate, maintain and ride. The existing road and air travel system work well. are economical and free of the kind of corruption we have seen too much of from men like Elon Musk.
We searched for "hyperloop" in patent and engineering databases for over an hour and all we came up for Musk was a pneumatic tube like those of 100 years ago in department stores. He describes people in it being transported at 1,000 to 1,500 miles per hour! In any curve they would be shredded to pieces! Starting and stopping would produce significant injuries. The concept is purely insane.
Mr. Musk did not offer any engineering specifications, data or drawings, just sketches, but he is certain to get money from the Obama gang. They gave him a total of $5 billion in loan guarantees in return for a $110,000 campaign contribution and two really stupid ideas. None of Mr. Musk's enterprises has ever made a Dollar of net profit without Federal program discount, tax benefit or gimmick, but he is listed as a "billionaire." The money they attribute to Leon Musk is yours and mine, or more accurately, it was...
Adrian Vance
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