Posted on 04/07/2017 1:07:53 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
he first tests of Elon Musk's revolutionary high-speed transport system could begin soon after Hyperloop One, one of 12 companies competing to make the idea a reality, completed its test track.
The company has finished work on its 500 metre long testing tunnel, which is situated in the Nevada desert, near Las Vegas, and has a diametre of 3.3 metres. It is expected to run initial trials on the near-supersonic speed train in the first half of this year.
Hyperloop One announced the news alongside 11 proposed routes for the super-fast transport, all of which are in the US. The longest proposed route is 1,152 miles from Cheyenne to Houston and the shortest 64 miles from Boston to Providence.
The radical mode of transport, which could also travel from London to Manchester in 18 minutes, is being designed to hit speeds of up to 800mph. Designs for the Hyperloop look a bit like a train, but rather than running on wheels, its pods levitate and travel in a vaccuum. The frictionless environment allows them to move with little air resistance. . .
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800 mph....The high speed isn’t the worry so much as the stopping part.
For transporting goods, particularly ones that can stand up to high G forces? The rail industry is going to put a horse's head in Musk's bed for this one.
so after 10 (or is it 15) years the California high-speed rail is still a pipe-dream and Elon Musk has working models within a year.
Ed
They can hire the pretty women who work drive through windows at banks as conductors. They’re already trained at taking money and pneumatic tube operators.
As they say, its not the long drop but the quick stop that puts the dimple in the cow poop.
I’m glad to see they are covering the all important Cheyenne to Houston route.
That map doesn’t show anything anywhere near Cheyenne!
Stopping part?
Debris in front of you, part.
sounds like high speed rail is dated tech
There are serious limitations looking at the proposed map.
I think the car is in a tube like those ancient department store pneumatic systems. Evacuate the air in front so that there is no resistance and they are off to the races.
Will they have female hyperloop attendants?
My spellchecker didn’t recognize “hyperloop.”
5.56mm
You do realize that velocity and acceleration are two entirely different things, right? The acceleration to “cruising” speed and back down to zero at the terminus would be well under 1G.
esp in the Carolinas.
Hyperloop Test tunnel 500m = 1,640ft
Speed of sound approx 1,125 ft/sec
Rocket Sled test track at Edwards AFB, 20,000 ft.
Wonder how they’re going to get it up to speed ian such a short distance.
“Wonder how they’re going to get it up to speed ian such a short distance.”
It is a loop? So they go around and around?
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