It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere

  • gens@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    No, it’s just not viable. Just maintaining the vacuum is hard and takes a lot of energy. Keeping it from imploding onto the high speed train is also very hard.

    It does not need experimenting, it is known already.

    It is and always was a scam (or just simple stupidity, or both).

    • ExLisper@linux.community
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I wouldn’t really trust any of that unless it came from interdisciplinary team of engineers that actually looked into it. I know that there’s a lot of bloggers and youtubers that like to shit on every new idea but they are often wrong and are simply trying to create clickbait content.

    • BoscoBear@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 months ago

      Why is a vacuum (holding a tube in compression and 10-14psi ) harder than pressure (holding the tube in tension at 200-1500 psi).