I know; that's what I am saying. It is not mechanical it is priority. BNSF counts delay at roughly a million dollars an hour on the main N/S line. Amtrak is peanuts compared to that.

Sorry I thought I said this elsewhere but break downs are not the problem. BNSF owns the track and bumps the Coast Starlight off for freight. The West coast delays are about traffic and priority not mechanical breakdowns. Also the hyperloop would not be a pair of rails but a pair of pipes, they would not be cut in or built up on road bed but elevated on pylons. Land slides are not the same problem.

I really don't think the Hyperloop is a scam. The greatest savings are in permits, crossings, and compensatory mitigation. A line of dots across the already owned land is easier than a line. Even if the material costs are greater the over all costs looks to be around 1/5 the costs and it supersonic.

I really don't think rail is more pragmatic. If you look at a railroad bed it can be a 10 meter high dike of rock that goes on for hundreds of miles. In the US they are demanding that all crossing barriers be able to stop a SUV at 100kph. So everytime this thing crosses a road it is going to cost between $100k and $300k. Musk thinks hyperloop can be done for less than the zoning costs of the current design. In california if you damage a fish stream you have to do a no net loss mitigation called a DSAY. in LA they go go $650k per credit. that credit might come from a single acre of land taken out of current use and put back into a natural state. Basically the cost of land in California is very high even for open spaces. If you create a series of dots (pylons) it is easier than a line (road bed).

New single use track. That's why it is so expensive.

They owned the fucking country. No white people lived there. They used slavery.

WTF are you talking about? The Coast starlight is late because B&N ows the line and bumps them for freight priority. Once they are late or any reason it is a failure cascade. We need at least 3 N/S lines with high speed switches.

The thing about Europe vs. the US. is really freight vs people. People feel good about riding in trains but we move so much more mass so much more efficiently with freight then they do that it boggles the mind. The Economist basically laid it out a few years ago and showed that sacrificing freight for people is just an epic waste. Not that I am not for personal rail but Hyperloop fucking owns. Condemnation in an era when the railroads don't literally own the government is not going to happen. Plus the cost of DSAY credits any time you cross a stream and the cost of the high speed rail certified crossing barriers it ufcking insane and for what? So we can "feel better" about or totally unsustainable choices? Hyperloop is awesome, continuous tubing requires way less support than rail, it is lower impact on zoning, farming, fish, people, and basically everything.

It is not about diversity of opinions, opinions are like assholes, everyone has them, it is about what you can prove. You are free to have an opinion and to argue for it but when it is bat shit crazy or based on FUD and propaganda adults can listen long enough to know you have no idea what you are talking about and then ignore you.

This is the exact opposite of liberalism btw but you and Turdblossum always attack other people's strengths. You will never PROVE anything related to something as complex as the climate all you can do is get close enough to make an educated guess. Is Earth warming due to non-human activities yes quite probably. We are in an ice-age right now, granted the very end of one. Every time it has started to really end a large scale fresh water even has refrozen the north pole. This has created abnormally uniform temperatures for about the last 10,000 years. Maybe the only reason wee have civilization is due to ABNORMALLY consistent conditions. If if we can't prove anything at all do you want to RISK climate change that makes it unreasonably hard for us to keep doing the things we like? You know like eating, fucking, and watching TV. As for what you think you're talking a out the LONG carbon cycle is controlled by volcanoes, erosion, shellfish and subduction. The reason fossil fuels are bad is because they are artificial volcanoes that are speeding up the total carbon in the system. C02 is a greenhouse gas. Look up a text book from the 1950s before conservatives conflated FREEDOM with fossil fuels and check. What are you defending anyway? FREEDOM! or just the interests of the most profitable system in human history.

The REAL idea of liberalism is"That makes me uncomfortable because it might lead to me rethinking my position, TAKE IT IN AND TEST FOR TRUTH AND REALITY !" Conservatism either American or Religious is the castle keep defense of the intellect. You lake the meta cognition skill to know that the thing you hate the most you are most guilty of your self. That is epistolic cloture, that is FOX. It is also why you lake the nuts to even use an anonymous internet name instead of AC because you will never actually listen to anyone else's answer, you will just wait impatiently for your turn to blather.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Being small (20% the size of California) homogeneous and rich is a trifecta for public utilities. Once you start talking ex-urbs price becomes pretty rough. Not that I don't agree with you but S. Korea is a pretty easy place to wire up.

NSA not CIA.

Hudsucker like a motherfucker.

Phantom Limb? Shouldn't you be kissing Dr. Girlfriend's ass right and arching Dr. Venture instead of dicking around on the internet right now?

That's why shills are AC.