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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Gets California Test Track

breitbart.com

"Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the company working on the high-tech concept, has reportedly closed a deal to purchase 5 miles of land alongside Interstate 5 in Central California to build its track."  

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/05/19/the-anti-high-speed-rail-elon-musks-hyperloop-gets-california-test-track/

Would be nice to see this technology evolve in the US.  Maybe a private system will be bult before the State's system is
done.  They could use the state's system for high speed freight, lol.

Time to Invest in the Hyperloop
http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/time-to-invest-in-the-hyperloop/2347

/Mitch

 



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/15 21:51 by Mgoldman.

Let's get real.

Compared to this idea high speed rail looks like a good investment.

Why is everyone starting their system in the Central Valley, is that the future of California?

Mgoldman Wrote:
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> "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the
> company working on the high-tech concept, has
> reportedly closed a deal to purchase 5 miles of
> land alongside Interstate 5 in Central California
> to build its track."  

Good marketing (if it works).

A pneumatic tube is not a track, and a hyperloop is not a train.

OliveHeights Wrote:
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> Why is everyone starting their system in the
> Central Valley, is that the future of California?

With rising sea levels and the San Andreas due for a catastrophic earthquake, maybe so!

John Wrote:
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> Let's get real.
>
> Compared to this idea high speed rail looks like a
> good investment.

"The Hyperloop promises to take up to 28 people at a time from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes.
The system uses a high-pressure tube to shoot passenger capsules up to 760 miles per hour, which would drastically
shorten the roughly 6 hours of driving time it takes to get between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Passenger tickets
would reportedly cost just $20 each way."

Yeah - I don't even know why we gave up the horse and carriage.  Oh, wait - was it that the manure created green
house gases?

Well - this is an Elon Musk idea - what has he ever accomplished?

Just watched the video - looks like there's a lot more to the test track then the test track but they may just end up
proving the viability of the concept.

/Mitch

 

I would certainly welcome a system that would get me from LA to the Bay Area in less than an hour, without having to go through airport processing, and supposedly at a fare less than Amtrak, but I wonder if this will really work, or if it's one of those "Gadgetbahn" concepts that looks "cool" on the cover of Popular Science but proves to be impractical technically and/or economically in the real world. We could go back over a hundred years and consider the "New York--Chicago Air Line", which proposed to build an electric railway between those two cities with low fares and high speeds.  The company actually build a few miles of track in northern Indiana (rather like HyperLoop and Calif. High Speed Rail both starting in the San Joaquin Valley), but the costs of grading and building a bridge over an existing railroad "burned through" their capital before the project got anywhere near Chicago.  Then, over the years, we've had "prismoidal railways" that never worked reliably and "monorails" that are OK for short-haul, closed loop applications, but have not replaced standard railways beyond the world of airports and theme parks.

They are starting in the Central Valley because it is not as inhabited as the rest of the line, the Santa Fe ran passenger trains at 100-plus in the late 1930s there, and it makes  a better place to do testing. Which is why we test airplanes, rocket engines, and spaceships here on the High Desert rather than over downtown LA...
(Two sonic booms since 10 a.m. here in Mojave).

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA