San Luis Obispo, CA 93410

David Ripplinger
TRF Program Vice President
Dept. 2880, P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

March 08, 2014

Dear Mr. Ripplinger,

The report following this letter is intended to inform the reader about the current CA High Speed Rail project and the more recently proposed Hyperloop project by Elon Musk. We also compare the two after giving the information and allow the reader to decide which they think is the better option.

The report is split up into four main sections. The first section consists of the civil aspects, followed by the energy required for each system to run, then the third section explains the environmental impacts and finally the fourth section compares the pricing of both high …show more content…

Hyperloop Section with Solar Panels……………………………………………………………2
Figure B. Hyperloop Suggested Route…………………………………………………………………………4
Figure C. High Speed Rail Alignment…………………………………………………………………………..7
Figure D. Energy Consumption in MJ/pkm………………………………………………………………..10
Figure E. Energy per Passenger per Journey……………………………………………………………..13
Figure F. Hyperloop External Structure and Pylons…………………………………………………...14
Figure G. High Speed Rail Route……………………………………………………………………………….15
Figure H. High Speed Rail…………………………………………………………………………………………17

List of Tables
Table 1. Min. and