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The hyperloop is the latest brainchild of Elon Musk who is known for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Musk is a successful entrepreneur concerned about the future of mankind. He has founded the Musk Foundation, dedicated to space exploration and the discovery of renewable and clean energy sources.
What exactly is the hyperloop? Musk has proposed building a high-speed tube transportation system that would allow humans to travel 760 miles (1,223 kilometers) per hour, or Mach 0.91. Musk is too busy to develop the technology himself, so after his team worked for nine months to lay the groundwork, Musk invited the world to take up the challenge of creating hyperloop transportation.
Hyperloop One is one of the companies that is rising to the challenge. According to this company, the cost to build this new system would be 50-60% cheaper than building a comparable high-speed rail line because it requires “less intensive civil engineering, its levitated vehicles produce fewer maintenance issues and its electric propulsion occupies far less of the track than high-speed rail.” Last May, Hyperloop One held its first propulsion test in the desert north of Las Vegas.
Another company invested in this technology is Hyperloop Transportation Technologies who want to combine hyperloop with local subway systems. Their slogan is transportation at rocket speed.
This new transportation system is a green system using solar and wind energy. Regenerative braking will pump energy back into the batteries used to power the system. And it would be fast.
- Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes.
- Pittsburgh to Chicago in 45 minutes.
- Stockholm to Helsinki in 28 minutes.
- From Washington DC to New York City in 30 minutes.
- From Las Vegas to Denver in less than an hour.
Earlier this year, MIT won a hyperloop design competion held at Texas A&M University. The two-day competition saw over 100 university teams present their design concepts. The teams came from 27 U.S. states and 20 countries.
Hyperloop is still in the design stage and plans to have a system up and running in the near future are probably more dream than fact. Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes may happen some day, but don’t book your ticket yet.
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