Adnan Aslam (BSc Mechanical Engineering) HITEC University Texla, Islamabad Pakistan.

(Personal interest)

Hyperloop Train

One of the most exciting innovations in transportation has to be the Hyperloop train. Rising

on nearly airless tubes at 800 mph, the train will

transport you from LA to San Francisco in just 30

minutes.

Elon Musk announced a design scheme

back in August, but FoxNews.com has learned the

concept is more than a pipe dream -- it is now a

real technology in development.

“We’re moving toward conceptual design,” said Dr. Patricia Galloway, the co-leader

of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., hinting at more than just a rough design sketch and

an actual concept, something that is concrete and verifiable in the near future.

“On paper, hyperloop is both cheaper and

quieter, and it is potentially much faster, than a

maglev train,” said Rob Enderle, an analyst with

Enderle Group who studies Silicon Valley

technology

Adnan Aslam (BSc Mechanical Engineering) HITEC University Texla, Islamabad Pakistan.

(Personal interest)

Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation

lmost a year after Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, first

floated the idea of a superfast mode of transportation, he has finally revealed the details: a

solar-powered, city-to-city elevated transit system that could take passengers and cars from

Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.

In typical Musk fashion, The Hyperloop, as he calls it, immediately poses a challenge to the

status quo—in this case, California’s $70 billion high-speed train that has been knocked by Musk and

others as too expensive, too slow, and too impractical.

In Musk’s vision, the Hyperloop

would transport people via aluminum pods

enclosed inside of steel tubes. He describes

the design as looking like a shotgun with the

tubes running side by side for most of the

journey and closing the loop at either end.

These tubes would be mounted on columns 50

to 100 yards apart, and the pods

inside would travel up to 800 miles

per hour. Some of this Musk has

hinted at before; he now adds that pods

could ferry cars as well as people. “You just

drive on, and the pod departs,

STORY: Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist

As for safety?

Musk has heard of it. “There’s an emergency brake,” he says. “Generally, though, the safe distance

between the pods would be about 5 miles, so you could have about 70 pods between Los Angeles and San

Francisco that leave every 30 seconds. It’s like getting a ride on Space Mountain at Disneyland.”

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Adnan Aslam (BSc Mechanical Engineering) HITEC University Texla, Islamabad Pakistan.

(Personal interest)

Musk imagines that riding on the Hyperloop would be quite pleasant. “It would have less lateral

acceleration (which is what tends to make people feel motion sick) than a subway ride, as the pod banks

against the tube like an airplane,” he says. “Unlike an airplane, it is not subject to turbulence, so there are

no sudden movements. It would feel supersmooth.”

The Hyperloop was designed to link cities less than 1,000 miles apart that have high amounts of

traffic between them, Musk says. Under 1,000 miles, the Hyperloop could have a nice edge over planes,

which need a lot of time to take off and land. “It makes sense for things like L.A. to San Francisco, New

York to D.C., New York to Boston,” Musk says. “Over 1,000 miles, the tube cost starts to become

prohibitive, and you don’t want tubes every which way. You don’t want to live in Tube Land.” Right?

Reference:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/27/five-future-transportation-technologies-that-will-actually-

happen/

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-12/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop