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Hyperloop Construction Starts Next Year With the First Full-Scale Track

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This seems kind of interesting except for Quay Valley[1] which is the figment of someone's over active imagination. A much more interesting idea would be to build a Hyper loop between Fresno and San Luis Obispo.

[1] Quay Valley, the quintessential real estate scam :-) For those of you who don't know, this is located on Interstate 5 between Highway 41 and Highway 46 call it due west of Delano. Now zoom in on the satellite view. What you see is the dry, parched soil of the central valley, without access to water reverted back to its native desert scrub form. This is some of the cheapest land you can buy in California if you don't require water rights.

How old is the satellite view? Has anybody been by there recently? I'll admit I looked at the brochure and it (Quay Valley) looks like [vaporware].

Plus I'm just a bit perturbed with these must-be-generated-by-an-algorithm locational names. A quay is a wharf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf). And the only water around is coming out of a pipe. And a "Quay Valley" is some sort of malapropism, especially in geographic context.

It is pretty recent. I drove past that (and then turned east on 46) about a month ago and without water its pretty much reverted back to desert.

"Quay Hays" is the name of a developer involved with the project.

(I had said he owned the land but edited to the above because I don't know if he owns the land or not)

Ahhh... Well that makes me feel marginally better. But Hays Valley has a nice ring to it -- why couldn't they have gone with that? :-)

"...won't be seeing anything approaching 800 mph". So what would it be? 80 mph? What a cop out.

At that turning radius... it can't possibly go that fast?

"Anyone can buy a ticket and climb aboard, but they won’t see anything approaching 800 mph. Getting up to that mark requires about 100 miles of track, Ahlborn says, and “speed is not really what we want to test here.”"

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