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Forget High-Speed Rail: Elon Musk Wants to Build Something Far More Awesome
By Will Oremus
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Posted Monday, July 15, 2013, at 5:54 PM
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop
We don't know yet what Elon Musk's hypothetical Hyperloop might look like,
but he claims it would get passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in
under half an hour
Illustration by Fedor Selivanov / Shutterstock.com
High-speed rail is so 20th century. Well, perhaps not in the United States,
where we still haven’t gotten around to building any true bullet trains.
After 30 years of dithering, California is finally working on one that would
get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a little under 2 1/2 hours,
but it could cost on the order of $100 billion and won’t be ready until at
least 2028.
Enter Tesla and SpaceX visionary Elon Musk with one of the craziest-sounding
ideas in transportation history. For a while now, Musk has been hinting at
an idea he calls the Hyperloop—a ground-based transportation technology
that would get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under half an
hour, for less than 1/10 the cost of building the high-speed rail line. Oh,
and this 800-mph system would be self-powered, immune to weather, and would
never crash.
What is the Hyperloop? So far Musk hasn’t gotten very specific, though he
once called it “a cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey
table.” But we’ll soon find out more. On Monday, Musk tweeted that he will
publish an “alpha design” for the Hyperloop by Aug. 12. Responding to
questions on Twitter, he indicated that the plans would be open-source, and
that he would consider a partnership with someone who shared his vision.
Perhaps the best clue came when he responded to an engineer named John Gardi
, who published a diagram of his best guess as to how the Hyperloop might
work:
Hyperloop guess - illustration
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