Elon Musk To Unveil Ultra High-Speed Hyperloop Train Next Month

Elon Musk To Unveil Ultra High-Speed Hyperloop Train Next Month

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX just announced plans to unveil a high-speed transportation system under an open source license by August 12th, 2013, Hyperloop, a "fifth mode of transportation" that would provide a very high-speed, high-efficiency, and safe alternative to boats, planes, automobiles and trains.

Musk has described his concept as a "cross between Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table" and it could transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in around 30 minutes.

Elon Musk has described his concept as a "cross between Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table"

The Hyperloop is conceived as a tunnel-based tube system with weather-proof, crash-proof, solar-powered rail-less vehicles that would be twice as fast as planes. The system could work both above and below ground level.

Theories about what Hyperloop will look like are numerous-from tubes of low air pressure and use maglev-like methods acceleration and deceleration, to rail gun systems and vacuum tunnels.

More hints might be garnered from engineer John Gardi's diagram (below) which Musk acknowledged as the "the closest I've seen anyone guess so far," but we'll have to wait until August for the real deal, as well as more information on what level of involvement Musk plans to have in the project.

John Gardi's diagram  which Musk acknowledged as the "the closest I've seen anyone guess so far"

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Write by: RC - Wednesday, July 17, 2013