The wonderful and extensively traveled Tom Scott was in Vancouver to talk about the University of British Columbia’s Rabbit Line, a 2.5 km pipeline across UBC’s campus. A mechanism uses air pressure to fire an aluminum capsule at 100km/hr to deliver short-lived radioactive isotopes from the university’s cyclotron to the hospital via the pipeline.
Because it’s UBC, say it al-YOU-min-yum. And a look at the specifics of what it takes to get this short vacuum tube transit to work emphasizes how Hyperloop is vaporware.
