@ruskin147 It's junk. Wasteful junk. What a miserable use of human effort.
@ruskin147 My point can be made with two numbers:
1 Crossrail tunnel can carry 36000pax/hr.
1 Boring tunnel... 500pax/hr at best?
As ever, it's all about capacity.
1 Crossrail tunnel can carry 36000pax/hr.
1 Boring tunnel... 500pax/hr at best?
As ever, it's all about capacity.
@ruskin147 To put it another way, Musk's shoddily-built tunnel will have to carry over EIGHT VEHICLES PER SECOND to match the capacity of an underground railway. No chance.
@ruskin147 I've just done some quick sums and, given Musk's quoted speed of 150mph, the MAXIMUM capacity his daft system can have is 60pax/hr/direction.
You'd need 630 tunnels to match the capacity of one Crossrail tunnel **drops mic**
You'd need 630 tunnels to match the capacity of one Crossrail tunnel **drops mic**
@ruskin147 Even if you ran this thing like a conveyor belt with cars nose-to-tail, it couldn't have a capacity greater than 6600p/h/d. That's with a car passing every second, which is plainly fantasy.
And that's before we look at the fiddly bits like the access "lifts" and junctions.
And that's before we look at the fiddly bits like the access "lifts" and junctions.
@ruskin147 Anyway, here's a less chaotic thread looking at Musk's capacity claims in more detail:
