"The Hyperloop" will be a revolutionary ‘fifth mode’ of transport, eclipsing trains, planes, boats, and automobiles.
The imaginary mode of speedy transportation planned by billionaire industrialist and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk is said to carry passengers across the U.S. in a speed faster than sound. He plans to build in California and will be designed to be up to 10 times faster than a bullet train.
Wishful thinkers who have imagined such fictional scheme for fast travel from one place to another in an unthinkable speed is what supplies the transport history. Not having to mention that a number of those unrealistic ideas still remain as dreams that will never come true.
But please, look at the most recent puzzling project that is creating so much noise these months, in a different light. This project is supported by a genius company with a verified track record of turning fictional science into reality, the Silicon Valley.
Known for his primal fortune from the online secure payment system Paypal, Billionaire Elon Musk then shifted to launching spaceships and his gamble on Space X, happened to be the first private operation to harbor a cargo capsule in the International Space Station.
Musk will be releasing the plans for the Hyperloop on August 12 and since the announcement, scientists were left cramming.
He has given a number of hints about its look, as well as the idea of empowering it by solar panels, but still, they will have to wait for the “alpha design to be posted on the internet.
And since the design will not be patented, anyone can revise it or create it.
As pointed out by the Telegraph, “the heated debate on how would it look like has evolved from Star Trek style teleportation to a more possible ones like cars being pushed through vacuum sealed tunnels using magnets.”
Musk, denied the hearsay that it will be a “vactrain,” a design that’s already being used by a Colorado-based company. However, he mentioned that it “does involve a tube, but not a vacuum tube. Not frictionless, but very low friction.”
He also added that he is too preoccupied with space to do it himself so, “I think I kind of shot myself in the foot by ever mentioning the Hyperloop, because I’m too strung out. Obviously I have to focus on core Tesla business, and SpaceX business, and that’s more than enough.”
