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Hyoerloop is not a scam just because The con man proposed it with the intent of stopping a high speed rail road project.
It's a scam also because:
I don't think you can say any of this until you actually put some money into it and check. Technology improves all the time and with it economics of such project. They didn't really try to build any actual routes. They just tried to do some prototypes and check current feasibility. I don't see this as a scam or a bad thing at all. No public money went into this.
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).
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.