Friday, August 16, 2013

Hyperloop transit system made of "sun, air and magnets"

The proposed design for the Hyperloop, the uber fast transit system that would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, was released this week in a detailed document by Elon Musk on his Tesla Motors website.

Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, outlines a futuristic system that moves pods under low pressure through a tube between the two California cities, along the I-5 freeway.

The Hyperloop would consist of aluminum pods inside a set of two steel tubes, one for each direction of travel and connected at each terminus. The tubes would be placed on top of pylons spaced 100 feet apart holding the tube 20 feet in the air, and the tube would be covered by solar arrays to generate its own power.

Inside the tubes, the pods would carry people at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour.

For more of the Ars Technica story: arstechnica.com

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