Elon Musk's Hyperloop concept

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https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/02/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-first-capsule/
 
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?
 
TomcatViP said:
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?
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Probably be more realistic to keep it thin instead of complete vacuum.
 
sferrin said:
TomcatViP said:
Funny that they went laminar and included some heavy drag reduction shaping: weren't they supposed to have no air in the tunnel?
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Probably be more realistic to keep it thin instead of complete vacuum.
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A reasonably well-equipped laboratory would be hard pressed to create the sort of crappy vacuum you'd find in low Earth orbit...never mind a tunnel meters in diameter and hundreds of miles long with many, many large-size hatches that are constantly opening up to the larger environment.
 
It was always a low-pressure rather than vacuum design. Musk's initial sketches even had a fan compressor mounted to the nose.
 
https://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/12/londons-victorian-hyperloop-forgotten-pneumatic-railway-beneath-capitals-street
 
www.bbc.com

New Hyperloop speed record set and other news

BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the week's best technology news stories.
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During SpaceX’s annual Hyperloop competition, a pod designed by the Technical University of Munich reached a record top speed of 288mph (463km/h) - but soon after exploded
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Note that the video is glitched at the moment, they'll probably fix it quickly enough though.
 
jalopnik.com

Missouri Is One Step Closer To A Hyperloop Between St. Louis And Kansas City

Since 2017 an investigative panel in the state of Missouri has been studying the feasibility of installing a 250 mile stretch of Hyperloop along the I-70 corridor between St. Louis, Columbia, and Kansas City. The study found that the Hyperloop could save the state up to $500 million annually in...
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www.wsj.com

Virgin vs. Hyperloop TT: The Race to Make Musk’s Moonshot a Reality

Seven years after Elon Musk first challenged innovators to develop a functioning hyperloop system, Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop and Hyperloop TT are in a race to bring the high-speed transportation technology into the real world. Photo illustration: George Downs
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23n94m96flc



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Virgin Hyperloop Unveils Passenger Experience Vision

Groundbreaking design shows end-to-end passenger experience for the 21st century Inside the Virgin Hyperloop portal. Design by Bjarke Ingels Group and animation by SeeThree. Inside the Virgin Hyperloop pod. Design by TEAGUE and animation by SeeThree. Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 27, 2021 (GLOBE...
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I think I'll wait for the movie. Perhaps Tom Cruise and the MI folk can do something with it.
 
Grey Havoc said:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVIWu7yrH8
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It's often said that every few months some techbro reinvents the bus - and fails.

Judging by the comments below that one and this one too, people are realising that. Some of the more cynical commenters suggest that schemes like this exist only to divert attention away from investment in workable public transport and back to car makers... like Tesla.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNNKpnd5lyM


There's an early short story by William Gibson called 'The Gernsback Continuum':

The Gernsback Continuum - Wikipedia

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Rhinocrates said:
Some of the more cynical commenters suggest that schemes like this exist only to divert attention away from investment in workable public transport and back to car makers... like Tesla.
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Musk actually admitted this was the case with Hyperloop. He wanted to undercut California's high-speed rail proposal and keep traffic on the road.
 
I want the concept coupled with this:
newatlas.com

Petra's remarkable thermal bore cuts through undrillable rock

San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth – stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment – so quickly and cheaply that it could make a lot of underground infrastructure projects economically…
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I want a tunnel under the Drake Passage to Antarctica.

China is working on a 173 mile long water tunnel at home.

It would have to be 3 miles down though.
 

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