Have you ever
imagined an overland journey from town to town with the speed of over 1000
km/h?
It sounds crazy,
when you think about it, but it can happen soon! All of this thanks to an
eccentric billionaire and a visionary Elon Musk.
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The owner of Tesla
Motors and SpaceX, one of the most influential people in the twenty-first
century reveals plans to create the Hyperloop system, the fifth means of transport, that will allow
the transport of passengers at the speed of over 1200 km/h.
The system will
use small gondolas with solar panels
traveling inside. These gondolas will move on "cushions"
created by the air blown out of them. Vehicles are expected to run every 2
minutes and allow the transport of passengers and even vehicles.
Below you will
find Musk’s hyperloop sketches:
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The Hyperloop is different from similar
projects as it requires no digging of long tunnels or vacuum. It seems that
everything can be made using the existing technology.
A few months ago JumpStartFund , a crowd-powered
online incubator, created Hyperloop Transportation Technology Inc., which
brought together engineers willing to spend their free time working on design
in exchange for stock options.
HTT plans to start the construction of a
test section on a full-scale, ready to transport passengers in 2016. They also
announced that the project has 400 “team members”. They aren’t employees, but
women and men working for, e.g. NASA,
Boeing, and SpaceX, who spend their time working
on the Hyperloop in exchange for stock options. They’ve also got several potential investors.
on the Hyperloop in exchange for stock options. They’ve also got several potential investors.
We can only look forward to using it.
