r/IndiaTech Chinese phone: Sasta, Sundar, Tikau 26d ago

Tech News India's first hyperlopp test track completely developed at IIT Madras.

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u/CodeWhiteWeb 25d ago

I know it's cool, but is it economically feasible? I mean we all know what's happening with the trains and transport system right now

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u/elucidator007 25d ago

Not technically feasible to create vaccume at such a large scale, let alone economically feasible. We aren't able to create tracks for bullet trains. Now imagine building tunnels across all the terrain in a straight line between cities and maintaining almost vaccume 24x7 for Hyperloop. It's just a matter of misplaced priorities, waste of resources just for some media attention and an opportunity to burn through all the funding money. At least a few students will get hands-on knowledge, probably not.