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Also, what happens if the pods leak? Seems like the air in the pods will diffuse through the tube and the people will suffocate.
by jeffreyrogers 6y ago
Also, what happens if the pods leak? Seems like the air in the pods will diffuse through the tube and the people will suffocate.
- tibyat 6y agoever been on a plane?
- vidarh 6y agoAs long as pod moves, there's a constant pressure build-up of air in front of it, to the point that the design includes a compressor to pump air from the front of the pods because passively preventing the buildup by letting it blow through the pod would be insufficient. So a leak would be a piffling little annoyance in comparison - there'd not be enough volume of air inside the pods to cause a problem compared to the air the compressor on the pod will be actively pumping from the front of the pod to get it out of the way.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThat compressor is absent from every single design we've seen right now, The duct for air to go from front to back would also use up a significant amount of cabin space, and the electric-powered multi-stage high compression ratio high-speed compressor would have massive power usage, weight, and cost. Power usage that would have to be palliated via batteries, as the capsule supposedly has no contact with the tube. Because of this, no full-scale design yet has incorporated a compressor.