Hyperloop is a conceptual transport system in which passengers and goods are loaded into capsules and fired through vacuum tubes at more than 600mph (1,000km/h). The propulsion system might be the air compressors or Magnetic levitation.
This new mode of transportation is supposed to eliminate all travel complications and objections due to travel time ,cost and weather conditions.
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| Hyperloop Transportation |
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African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and
inventor “Elon Musk” , currently the CEO
of SpaceX is the pioneer of Hyperloop Transportation system.
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Features of Hyperloop
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The
Hyperloop system as proposed by Elon Musk is supposed to have the features
like:
- Around twice the Speed of an aircraft
- Immune to weather and climatic conditions
- Immune to calamities like earthquake(system on pylons, where the tube is not rigidly fixed at any point)
- Solar Powered
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Self Sufficient System: Solar
panels placed along the track will be producing excess amounts of the energy that will be used to run the system.
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| Elon Musk's Hyperloop |
The first
public test of the Hyperloop system went off on May 2016 in the Nevada
desert.
The
demonstration featured a sled of metal gliding across a 1,000 meter track.
The sled accelerated at 2.5G and reached a top speed of 116mph in two seconds .This is a significant milestone in the development of Hyperloop. But there are lots of work to do before building the full-scale system envisioned by Elon Musk that will eventually run at 700mph.
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| First Public HyperLoop System |
Elon doesn’t have much time to give on this technology as he
is busy making rockets, electric cars and batteries. So he decided to go public
on this idea and outsourced it in the form a competition. Musk’s SpaceX is
building a mile-long test track for the Hyperloop
Pod Competition, and January 2017 will see the test runs for
all the pods competing in it.
Possibility and Implementation of Hyper loop:
With the issues of dropping the air pressure in the long
tube to 0.001 bar, Fire safety, device /track malfunctions and emergency
evacuations, there are challenges for the continuous progress of the project. But
With the invention of few technologies the development is likely to be
accelerated and the day with the hyperloop transport system is likely to exist
in our near future.
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