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[llien]

The western-central Indian state of Maharashta plans to build a Virgin Hyperloop track between Pune and Mumbai, British entrepreneur and Virgin boss Richard Branson announced on Monday in a blog post.

Virgin Hyperloop One will start by building a demo track, with the aim of eventually supporting 150 million passenger trips per year. It should reduce the 2.5-hour car journey or 3-hour train journey between the two cities to just 25 minutes, and will also stop off at Mumbai airport.

Virgin Hyperloop One is one of two main companies currently trying to bring Elon Musk's vision for the future of intercity transport to life. Previously known just as Hyperloop One, it received significant investment from transportation giant Virginin October 2017, leading to a rebrand. Branson was announced as chairman of the company in December.

"Virgin Hyperloop One could have the same impact on India in the 21st century as trains did in the 20th century," said Branson. The proposed route is "an ideal first corridor as part of a national hyperloop network," he added.

CNET

A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX.[1] Drawing heavily from Robert Goddard's vactrain, a hyperloop comprises a sealed tube or system of tubes through which a pod may travel free of air resistance or friction conveying people or objects at high speed while being very efficient.

Elon Musk's version of the concept, first publicly mentioned in 2012,[2] incorporates reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on air bearings driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.[3]

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[Wubby]

I do have to wonder how these things will fare in earthquake prone areas.

 

[llien]

I do have to wonder how these things will fare in earthquake prone areas.

Japan has a network of fastest trains in the world, despite being in a seismic active zone. To address earthquakes:

...the Urgent Earthquake Detection and Alarm System (UrEDAS) (earthquake warning system) was introduced in 1992. It enables automatic braking of bullet trains in the case of large earthquakes.

 

[Cato]

Japan has a network of fastest trains

Japan has a network of fastest trains in the world, despite being in a seismic active zone. To address earthquakes:

The japan train network does not operate in a mode where catastrophic decompression will instantly kill all passangers and make the train track inoperable for months.

 

[jonnyp]

Hyperloop is the very definition of pipe dream. Poor those people in the pods when the first pipe implosion happens or when a pod gets stuck and people suffocate. But I don't think any hyperloop will ever be completed, at least nowhere near matching the original concept, technically possible but too unsafe and too expensive. So you have to question why they are still pursuing it. It's great for university students to dabble with, great practical experience into many disciplines but as a commercially viable mode of transportation - nah.

 

[llien]

Safety concerns sound like something rather basic too look at, I doubt one could gather quarter a billion of investments without having plans to address it.
Whether idea is viable, is to be seen, of course, but it's no science fiction.

 

[NiiloPielinen]

I remember seeing some youtube videos debunking it, saying things like that the thermal expansion of materials would cause a long hyperloop tube's upper part to be hundreds of meters longer than lower part

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

I remember seeing some youtube videos debunking it, saying things like that the thermal expansion of materials would cause a long hyperloop tube's upper part to be hundreds of meters longer than lower part

This?



Love Musk but please stop.

 

[llien]

I remember seeing some youtube videos debunking it, saying things like that the thermal expansion of materials would cause a long hyperloop tube's upper part to be hundreds of meters longer than lower part

I see FB posts of a bunch of Russians who are into aerospace industry and pretty much anything with Musk in it is accompanied by a chorus of (quite reasonably looking)"BS" calls.

It taught me to be rather skeptical about anti-Musk criticism.

 

[Nintendo Switch]

I remember seeing some youtube videos debunking it, saying things like that the thermal expansion of materials would cause a long hyperloop tube's upper part to be hundreds of meters longer than lower part

This was conceptualized and designed by aerospace and materials engineers that are experts in their fields and it has hundreds of millions of dollars behind it, and you think a random YouTuber would know better? If any of the criticism in the YouTube video was valid, he could easily get it published in a scientific journal rather than have to resort to YouTube postings.

If YouTube was around in the 19th century, i bet we would have been enundated with YouTube videos “debunking” evolution, cars, and plane technology as well

 

[Mohonky]

I remember seeing some youtube videos debunking it, saying things like that the thermal expansion of materials would cause a long hyperloop tube's upper part to be hundreds of meters longer than lower part

It is true, but I think you'd be a little naïve to believe this isn't something that hasn't been considered and won't be addressed.

You'd be amazed at what some of specialist engineering firms are capable of.

 

[llien]

New video of the prototype (released on 4th of Aprl 2018)

 

[Panda1]

They use the word hyperlooo as a marketing term. It is just really a new modern subway system with faster trains. Look at it that way. Serious dont tell me you believe the marketing hype. This will not be any new revolutionary technology.

 

[The Mule]

I'm so ready to get on this hype train.

 

[llien]

It is just really a new modern subway system with faster trains.

With 20 times faster trains and 100 times longer distances.

 

[GMAK2442]

Interesting new transport system. But I doubt it will be a solution to our transport problems; but good thing.

 

[caffeware]

Virgin?