“This isn’t usually the way I start my interviews, but I have to tell you, this sounds kind of crazy,” I told Nick Earle of Hyperloop One when I jumped on a call with him this morning.
As senior vice president of global operations for the company pushing a plan to send people traveling in tubes at more than 600 mph, Earle had heard it before. He flashed back to the roots of the Hyperloop concept envisioned by Tesla founder Elon Musk.
“Elon Musk, when he wrote the original white paper back…