About a month ago it was reported that Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and owner of SpaceX, is preparing to submit a draft of a new type of transport. Compared with the concept on which information was available 24gadget at the time, Hyperloop become much more elaborated the idea and published in the “alpha” design provides not only information about the operating principles, but also spelled out the various nuances, including all sorts of problems . Skeptics are actively discussing the various aspects of the transport system and also the general plan of fabulousness can not find the arguments against its creation, almost every aspect of Hyperloop conceived by its creator.

The idea of ​​the route length of 900 km Elon Musk was a protest against the construction of a prolonged and bloated to $ 60 billion high-speed railway budget of California High-Speed ​​Rail. Musk promised to prepare an alternative draft for a tenth of that amount. Hyperloop will be a straight steel pipe mounted on special supports, inside which move the capsule with a powerful turbine pumping rarefied air of the capsule, thereby lifting the bottom of the pipe in order to avoid friction. Acceleration and maintaining speed capsule will provide induction motors are located approximately every 100 km. The system will accelerate to a speed of 1,200 km / h, while the passengers will not experience high congestion. The entire system will produce energy through solar panels located on the outer surface transport pipes and is completely self-contained, spending a total of 21 MW of the estimated 57 MW.

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Director General of notorious companies SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk (Elon Musk) admitted that the system of transportation Hyperloop, which in theory allows you to travel to almost the speed of sound is “extremely risky model.”

Mr. Musk during a conference call with investors Tesla Motors said:

I think I shot myself in the foot when he first mentioned the Hyperloop. In short, I’m torn.

In other words, all the time spent on SpaceX Elon and Tesla Motors, and on Hyperloop his remains. The project will still be presented on August 12, but create Hyperloop Musk is not going, he wants to give a chance to others to build a next-generation transport system. However, according to the mask, if not wanting to be found, in the near future, it will try to translate this idea into reality.

At the moment of Hyperloop not know a lot of facts, but there is a lot of guesswork. The above scheme, which was provided to the user by the name of John Hardy, Elon Musk said, “as a best guess at the moment.”

It describes a tube through which move the capsule. Thus capsules “pushed” by the accelerated air flow pipe, and both ends of the tube are special compartments for acceleration and deceleration capsules. It is unknown what exactly filled tube, as Musk assured that Hyperloop no vacuum.

As planned, the average speed capsules Hyperloop is about 1000 km / h, and the capsules during the acceleration, acceleration or deceleration is not more than 1G. Sensations are the same as in the ride vehicle.

Elon Musk had previously claimed that the cost of the system between two hypothetical points is about 10 percent of the cost of high-speed railway, and 25 percent of the cost of the highway. From this we can conclude that Hyperloop has no relation to the magnetic levitation train.

How does Elon wants to make the capsule to float in the air without resistance is not known. Perhaps this will be used acoustic levitation.

The reality is that today there is simply no technology that could translate this idea into a commercial product. Chances are that Elon Musk will present a draft Hyperloop, which will rely on unproven technology, rather than a detailed construction plan. Given the fact that Elon considers the project “highly speculative”, it can be assumed that even he does not know a reasonable time production Hyperloop.

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Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla Motors, made the announcement of the next-generation transport system. Its operating principle is based on acceleration capsule passengers electromagnets similar manner as in Gauss. According to Mr. Musk, it will be possible to create both ground and underground highway to travel between continents, and alpha-design of the project will be published on 12 August this year.

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