Science Elon Musk's new 5th form of transportation. The Hyperloop. - Page 4

|Zach| · 08-08-2013, 04:36 PM

All That We Know About Musk's Hyperloop: The Infographic

http://jalopnik.com/all-that-we-know...hic-1066973247

As we've all heard by now Elon Musk, un-contented with running an electric car company and a spaceship company, will be announcing plans for a 30-minute round trip LA to SF transit system. Luckily, someone has shared this lovely infographic with us showing everything we know so far.

And what we know so far isn't really all that much: Musk says it's not a tube with a pure vacuum in it, it could be powered entirely by solar panels and even generate electricity, and it's sort of a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table," which coincidentally is exactly what my drawings for my future home's rec room included back when I was six.

The actual details should be revealed on Monday, so those of you creating scale models in your backyards shouldn't have to wait too much longer. And while Musk now says he's too busy to build it himself (come on! Just skip your Tuesday night hot yoga class, man) I'm still hoping this thing actually will get built, so I can finally get looked down upon by San Franciscans in 30 minutes instead of the usual 5 hours by car.

Info graphic is huge but worth expanding and checking out.

Teak · 12-24-2020, 07:45 AM

Musk wants a Mars' colony. His ideas for the Boring Company and the Hyperloop are more exclusively for living on Mars in the spectrum of companies he fosters. Not that there are not uses on earth just not a necessity. The Hyperloop needs a vacuum to really work and that is a closer reality on Mars and of course the Moon to obtain. The necessities on those bodies to support humans are met by those named companies enterprises. The rest of his companies have value on a larger scale on Earth.

seamonster · 12-24-2020, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Teak

Musk wants a Mars' colony. His ideas for the Boring Company and the Hyperloop are more exclusively for living on Mars in the spectrum of companies he fosters. Not that there are not uses on earth just not a necessity. The Hyperloop needs a vacuum to really work and that is a closer reality on Mars and of course the Moon to obtain. The necessities on those bodies to support humans are met by those named companies enterprises. The rest of his companies have value on a larger scale on Earth.

Musk is full of shit. The only hyper loop he's got is the one that goes straight into the governments pocket book.

**MahiMike** · 12-24-2020, 08:17 AM

One of the most impressive things I saw in China was the train station in Shanghai. Looked like something out of the Jetsons. And the train rode like a cloud at 300 KPH.

unlurking · 12-24-2020, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by seamonster

Musk is full of shit. The only hyper loop he's got is the one that goes straight into the governments pocket book.

No idea what your "government pocket book" comment is meant to convey (and don't care, obvious troll), but you are correct that Musk doesn't "have a hyperloop". He never intended to. This was something he fostered to try and get others to build. It worked. Others are building and testing using their own funds.

vonBobo · 12-24-2020, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by alanm

You know we're talking California here. They live in a totally different universe.

The other statement I noticed was it said the human body can only endure 1/10 of a G of lateral force. Even without a pressurized suit, people pull higher G's on a roller coaster. So I'm not sure where they came up with that statement.

When we lay down, aren't we experiencing a total G of lateral force?

**alpha_omega** · 12-26-2023, 05:42 PM

Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down

One of the longest-running hyperloop startups is reportedly shutting its doors. Hyperloop One, once backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, will cease operations on December 31 according to Bloomberg News.

It’s the latest stumble in the tech industry’s attempt to bring life to an idea Elon Musk first put forth in a white paper in 2013. And it comes after Hyperloop One raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars since its founding in 2014.

The original pitch for the hyperloop sounds like a zero interest rate fever dream: build lengthy vacuum-sealed tubes for shipping people and goods at super-high speeds. Aside from a handful of tech demos and test tracks, though, the idea still hasn’t taken off.......

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/21/hy...shutting-down/

arrowheadnation · 12-26-2023, 06:09 PM

Damn…was hoping to see this be put to use in my lifetime.

scho63 · 12-26-2023, 06:17 PM

I think they will be revived in the future.

Too soon for commercial application

seamonster · 12-26-2023, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by unlurking

No idea what your "government pocket book" comment is meant to convey (and don't care, obvious troll), but you are correct that Musk doesn't "have a hyperloop". He never intended to. This was something he fostered to try and get others to build. It worked. Others are building and testing using their own funds.

I'm not trolling. I'm being honest. He won a multi billion dollar contract deal from NASA, has a half billion dollar contract with the Air Force, got near a billion dollar contract for a "solar city" from New York's state government, gets environmental government tax credits raining down upon his company, and got Nevada to give him something like over a billion dollars in tax credits. He's a money-guy (contractor speak). Which is someone that knows how to play politics and win contracts (dirty business).This hyperloop shit is just one more avenue. I actually admire his talents.

Discuss Thrower · 12-26-2023, 06:21 PM

Nobody needs to get from STL to KC in under an hour. And it's not like there's some sort of high demand for anything perishable thar you can't in one city and not the either when it comes to the use case for not moving people.

BWillie · 12-26-2023, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Nobody needs to get from STL to KC in under an hour. And it's not like there's some sort of high demand for anything perishable thar you can't in one city and not the either when it comes to the use case for not moving people.

Strongly disagree

Hog's Gone Fishin · 12-27-2023, 12:41 AM

The moment you realize you're reading a 10 year old thread.

At 1 AM

dlphg9 · 12-27-2023, 12:45 AM

We need better transportation in the country. Bullet trains and things like that.

Chiefspants · 12-27-2023, 01:01 AM

This was a brilliant ploy to derail high speed rail in California.

Hats off to ya, Elon.

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