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The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward

posted by martyb on Thursday August 20 2015, @10:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the 'empty'-promises dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Hyperloop, detailed by the SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in a 57-page alpha white paper in August 2013, is a transportation network of above-ground tubes that could span hundreds of miles. With extremely low air pressure inside those tubes, capsules filled with people would zip through them at near supersonic speeds. Musk published the paper encouraging anyone interested to pursue the idea, since he's kinda a busy guy.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced today that it has signed agreements to work with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and global engineering design firm Aecom. The two companies will lend their expertise in exchange for stock options in the company, joining the army of engineers from the likes of Boeing and SpaceX already lending their time to the effort.
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The startup plans to start construction on a full-scale, passenger-ready Hyperloop in 2016. The prototype will run 5 miles through Quay Valley, a planned community rising from nothing along Interstate 5, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ahlborn says he's got several potential investors.

The hyperloop would certainly redefine the concept of commuting.

Related: SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @12:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @12:52AM (#225636)

    Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 21 2015, @04:35AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday August 21 2015, @04:35AM (#225706) Homepage

    That episode flew right over my head when I first saw it as a kid, but everytime I read about those kinds of ideas popping up in California, memories of that episode always nag the back of my head in disturbingly prophetic and unsettling ways.

    Not because public transpiration is a bad thing, but because behind every good idea there's always at least one greedy bastard or interest willing to pocket more money at the expense of even safety.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @11:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @11:01AM (#225785)

      I was curious whether anyone was old enough to get the reference (and I don't even consider that an "old" reference). I'm afraid I'm further out on the tail-end of the age distribution here.