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Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

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[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn't really provide that big of a benefit.

Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a 'replaces traditional rail' degree) for 200 years.

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