The attached diagram depicts a hyperloop capsule. If this vehicle is in an evacuated tube, how is the fan in front going to provide any propulsion? There's no air for it to draw in.
Hyperloop question
Zachary Rogers
Robert Wood
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James Roberts
It doesn't but it caries a bit of air through it because a 100% vacuum is near impossible
Joseph Allen
Musk btfo
Will musk ever recover?
Levi Parker
I think they literally used a construction drawing from the laser pointer I use to entertain my cat.
Hunter Ortiz
>you know how America refuses to build Maglev infrastructure because the technology is too expensive and high-maintenance and out traffic going too many directions and over too large of a distance to make practical even with government subsidies?
>well what if we made the technology a thousand times more finicky and added excavation and tectonics to the equation?
Brilliant.
Daniel Butler
If it's levitating on magnets anyway, why don't they just use magnetic propulsion?
Levi Miller
Musk's proposals are not about building anything, they are about the government subsidizing his "trying."
Eli Lee
None of this matters, because the hyperloop is bullshit. It will never be operational
Evan Cox
The tube isn't evacuated and the fan isn't for propulsion. The fan is there to prevent air from building up in front of the pod causing drag