In 2013, he might have been laughed at, but Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and co-founder of PayPal, who is also called the Steve Jobs of mobility, successfully tested the transportation system of the future Hypeloop (which he himself described as a mix between a Concord plane, an electromagnetic gun, a table for air hockey and fun trains of death) silenced all doubters. Recently, the company Hyperloop One published a video of the first test of the superfast transport system, which will reach speeds of up to 1200 km/h; with this, the project took its first serious shape. In the future, will we arrive in Paris in an hour?
After planes, cars, trains and watercraft, we have more to come the fifth form of transport: Hyperloop, as named by its inventor Elon Musk. While his us electric cars are working less and less dependent on oil, it is also developing other forms of transport that are more environmentally friendly. Hyperloop based on the movement of the aluminum (passenger) capsule in the tube or air tunnel with side shock absorbers, fast movement, up to speed 1200 km/h (you would then be in Vienna from Ljubljana in less than 20 minutes), and it enables him low air pressure.
Hyperloop passed its first test in Nevada, USA, where Hyperloop Technologies, which was renamed at the time of testing Hyperloop One, set up a test site that consists of 800 meters of rails to test the transport system of the future. By the end of 2016, the company should have built and tested it as well capsule, track and computer, which will manage it.
What is Hyperloop anyway? It is extraordinary fast and energy-efficient transport in a vacuum tube, as the combination of low pressure and contactless movement of the capsule for transporting people and cargo reduces the amount of friction and consequently energy consumption. The pipes should also be equipped with solar cells, and the entire system should produce more energy than it will consume. The first form of this type of transport will be possible on the route San Francisco–Los Angeles.
The mode of transportation offered by the Hyperloop is otherwise not from in 2013, the idea goes back a long time the year 1827, when he is the inventor of the ship's screw Josef Ressel presented pneumatic mail system, which has undergone many upgrades. The pneumatic transport system was shut down after half a century, as vehicles often got stuck in the tubes. He also had to wipe his nose pneumatic railway project under the river Thames, which she buried above all financial crisis.
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This obviously cannot live up to Elon Musk and his projects that are forever changing the course of history.
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