The parallel story to yesterday’s post about an actual Hyperloop being constructed in California is that its setting is to be the utopic insta-city known as Quay Valley. Edens often end up biting, but perhaps some sustainable strategies will emerge from the planned development regardless of its outcome. From Anthony Cuthbertson at International Business Times:

In 2016, construction is to begin on one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken.

Ground will be broken on Quay Valley, a brand new city midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco that aims to be 100% solar-powered, entirely self-sustaining and connected by Hyperloop – the world’s most advanced transportation network.

Developed on 7,500 acres of private land straddling California’s Interstate 5 Freeway, Quay Valley is the brainchild of GROW Holdings (Green Renewable Organic and Water), who aspire to achieve what it calls “New Ruralism”. 

This utopic vision for future living is described by GROW as “a model town for the 21^st century” that can achieve complete sustainability using the latest technology in water preservation, renewable energy and organic farming.

“Citizens living there will basically not have an electricity bill,” Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies [HTT], told IBTimes UK.•