If anyone has read any of the "Nights Dawn" Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton then they will have seen that this idea isn't new.One of the features of the story, and it is only a story, is that the climate has become so f*****d by global warming that permanent violent storms rage,completely knackering air travel.The solution is to build supersonic "vacuum" trains in tubes on the sea beds linking all the continents together.The article seems to have lifted the idea straight out of the book,right down to the fine detail.The story by the way is set in AD2600 so I reckon I might just keep my job until retirement.
Horrible thought for the day: Will railtrack be put in charge?
How long before RB announces he's the launch customer?