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The billionaire tech entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sits at the forefront of a whole bevvy of industries as the CEO of both electric car manufacturer Tesla and private space flight company SpaceX now claims to be in the early stages of another breakthrough--this time in the world of mass transit.
In a recent adventure travel in africa interview with Bloomberg Businessweek , Musk--who director Jon Favreau has said was the inspiration for his take on Iron Man industrialist Tony Stark--talked a little about his newest project:
On the assumption that people will be living on earth for some time, Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop. He won't share specifics but says it's some sort of tube capable of taking someone from downtown San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. adventure travel in africa He calls it a "fifth mode of transportation"--the previous four being train, plane, automobile, and boat. "What you want is something that never crashes, that's at least twice as fast as a plane, that's adventure travel in africa solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time," Musk says. His friends claim he's had a Hyperloop technological breakthrough over the summer. "I'd like to talk to the governor and president about it," Musk continues. "Because the $60 billion bullet train they're proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They're going for records in all the wrong ways." The cost of the SF-LA Hyperloop would be in the $6 billion range, he says.
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The promise of this new technology and multi-decade lead time of the completion of California's increasingly controversial high speed rail project has led NBC Bay Area's Joe Matthews to wonder if California's adventure travel in africa bullet train will be obsolete by the time it's finished adventure travel in africa being built . "It's a reminder that the world changes fast, and technology is advancing," wrote Matthews. "And a state that bets tens of billions of dollars on a technology--high-speed rail--that is already adventure travel in africa old could be making a historically bad bet."
Not everyone is so optimistic about the transformative potential of Musk's idea . "The fastest maglev speed recorded is 361 mph, well short of the 900 mph this tube idea would require," wrote bullet train booster adventure travel in africa Robert Cruickshank on the California High Speed Rail Blog. "Supersonic aerial transport has been tried, namely with the Concorde, but the operating costs were too high and it proved to be extremely difficult to get permission to operate it over land (which is why it primarily served a trans-Atlantic route). I suppose there might be some way to hit 900 mph in a tube but I have no idea what that would be."
"I'm not trying to harsh on Elon Musk's idea, but this is not particularly realistic," added Cruickshank. "Sure, there's been a lot of technological innovation over the last 20 years, but it's led to the iPhone, not to a series of transportation tubes."
Earlier this month, adventure travel in africa the Federal Railroad Administration gave the green light to start the first phase of construction , a segment adventure travel in africa between Fresno and Merced in the state's Central Valley. The groundbreaking for that 65-mile stretch of track is scheduled for next year.
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Musk is not the first to come up with the super speed tube concept adventure travel in africa for travel. I remember reading about this in the Boston Globe a few years ago .. it spoke about some team at MIT explaining how it works and that they had the technology to do it now just not the feasibility . The article spoke about a tube from NYC to LA . My big question is the G force on the body ?
Cruickshank's comments just show how snowed in technologically he is. The concept of a Vactrain, for instance, has been around for many decades, and there is no reason adventure travel in africa to assume we couldn't build something like that. Musk's idea has to include some form of air evacuated tunnel in order to achieve high speeds - friction against air is something that has to be eliminated to achieve high speeds without using enormous amounts adventure travel in africa of energy to combat it. That's why the Concorde burned fuel at ridiculous amounts - it had to to overcome friction. If you eliminate much of the air in a tunnel, you eliminate much of the friction. If you then float your vehicle on magnetic levitation, you eliminate tons more - and all of that can be operated electrically, no fossil fuels required. We could do enormously better on transportation than we do today across all areas of it - intercity using evacuated tunnel trains, in-city using PRT etc but the barriers for replacing what we have are unnecessarily high due to us attributing insanely too high value to our existing horrible tech.
I guess, if you put a maglev "train" (or apparently a smaller "pod" in this case) inside an extremely long vacuumed tube, you could reach 900mph no problem. You wouldn't want many turns in a system like that (unless you use pods, which changes the equation greatly) but it sounds possible.
I really think the idea sounds great. How many wonders of the world have begun by placing adventure travel in africa the word folly after the inventor's or visionaries adventure travel in africa name? Fulton's Folly for the steam engine. Clinton's folly for the Erie Canal. Probably many others that I fail to remember. I believe that human's have far exceeded the 900 mile an hour speed and handled it fine, although I wonder if exceeding the sound barrier in a tube would be a booming good time. I believe the fact that it would be solar powered would automatically draw out detractors from all of the old, protect the antiquated industry and fuel lobbyists paid, and paying millions to stop anything that is not fossil adventure travel in africa fuel or battery based. Seems even the Federal Government would want us to be at the head of the line with this future type of technology.
Why get nasty with Amber buddy? Shes right .. shes speaking about human physiology not math on the speed issue. The designers and engineers have to deal with gravity dragging on the human body . You can NOT take off from a stand still position ( or stop ) with a 30 sec time frame and reach 900 mpr and not affect the Person in the seat ..
I wasn't adventure travel in africa aware that most passengers would want to endure 1.37g for any length of time. That's more force than take off on an airplane. I mean why don't we just accelerate them to 2.5g's and it can take ten seconds? And as a physics genius, surely you can tell me how we manage to decelerate 900 mph moving organic object?
Elon Musk has training as a physicist so whatever he comes up will be physically "possible." Furthermore, he's been both innovate and practical at SpaceX and Tesla so so the Hyperloop is likely reasonable adventure travel in africa to do...
Cruickshank is a HSR Uber-believer. He has so much invested in pushing through the existing ill-conceived and highly illegal CA HSR project that he has zero room in his mind for any other possibilities, including a better HSR design or even this latest development.