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Here's some speculation, http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/nextbigfuture-reader-tony-rusi-thinks.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/nextbigfuture-reader-tony-

• joshontheweb 14y ago
  :/ mostly vac-tube speculation. I'm hoping someone has some other ideas.
  • omegant 14y ago
    He says the hyperloop is kind of electrical, ground level, supersonic concord plane. So maybe it is a kind of bullet train riding on the shockwave. But he must confine this shockwave somehow(if he want´s supersonic at ground level with out neighbors burning it down) , maybe with a tube?. Maybe this tube could provide the support for the solar panels, stabilize the flight of the "train"(using the shockwave to steer it?) and storage the energy as a kind of capacitor... This way you don´t need an actual very expensive sealed tube with vacuum in it , just some metal plates with enough form to deflect(and mute) the waves once the "plane" passes...(and serve as capacitors too). I am guessing all this with just one sentence so it must be way off :). Thanks to spaceX and Tesla he has more knowledge now of electrical engines, electricity storage and transport, high energy aerodynamics, etc... it must be something that combines all that somehow..
    • buro9 14y ago
      That's roughly where my mind was going too. You'd still need a safe way to stop the vehicle in the event of an earthquake and rupturing of the path down which the vehicle flies.
      • omegant 14y ago
        If the hyperloop has some flight capabilities it could lift off from the tube(at supersonic speeds it would be easy), then deploy parachutes at a safe altitude, or ignite some rockets (like the scape system of the dragon capsule), or use some kind of electromagnetic braking (maybe the most probable). I am really looking forward for the day he makes it public!.
  • agumonkey 14y ago
    He mentions discussion about aerodynamics, so vacuums came to my mind too.