Dubai - Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop: Interview with Dirk Ahlborn
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In 2012, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, released a proposal for a futuristic tube transport system that could go faster than the speed of sound, cutting travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to 35 minutes or less. He described it as a "cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table" that "can never crash," and called it the Hyperloop. But what exactly is the Hyperloop? "Imagine a capsule with 28 people that's hovering inside a tube at really high speeds of 760 miles per hour," says Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), which is turning Musk's idea into reality. "It's completely solar-powered, it's cheaper to be built, it's earthquake-stable," he adds. Ahlborn recently sat down with Reason TV's Justin Monticello to talk about the technology behind the Hyperloop, his vision for a fully integrated system that would span the country, and the stark differences between it and publicly-funded high-speed rail projects. Among the relative benefits of his project are that it would cost 10-20% of the estimated $68 billion being spent to construct California's high speed rail, cut down on environmental harm and land seizures by running along highways on pylons, actually produce energy, and be at least four times as fast. But his vision doesn't end at long-distance travel; he imagines a world in which people live in the fly-over states and work on the coasts. Ahlborn, who is also CEO of JumpStart Fund, a crowdsourcing platform for business that is enabling his open source approach to the project, eventually wants an app that allows you to push a button and be in a city hundreds of miles away in under an hour. "A self-driving car comes and picks you up and brings you to...a mini-loop inside the city that then takes you to the larger station," describes Ahlborn. "That's really when you change the way people live." HTT recently announced an agreement to begin construction next year on a fully functional urban Hyperloop in Quay Valley, California, which the company hopes to complete by 2018. If Ahlborn's team is correct, this futuristic technology may be coming soon. For the full interview, watch the video above. Go to http://reason.com/reasontv/2015/04/07/the-man-whos-building-760mph-hyperloop for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live 7:57 minutes. Produced and Edited by Justin Monticello. Camera by Paul Detrick and Alexis Garcia. Music by ISItheDreaMakeR and JoosTVD.
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finally.
hopefully they build a bunch in Texas and fix the traffic problem especially in Dallas -
I was somewhere outside of Barstow when the hyper loop took hold.... a few will understand
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then the compressor stops pulling air and boob !instant pressure 6thousand miles an hour to zero everyone lost , no thanks get on board elon,you edgit
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Yay, the failed socialist state of California receives the coolest technology... seems prudent.
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Many years ago Roddenberry of Star Trek fame made a movie about something like this it was a pilot or two for a new television series that never got picked up
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760 mph = 6500km/h ha ha ha TV people are useless
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We live in a period of Time in which the Past meets the Future.
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what if some idiot pulls out his gun and shoots the tube.
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I think the most complicated issues are how do you create the vacuum for all the tube and how much energy it will take to do that. The tube could explode...isn't it?. But if is technology possible, looks asome.
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Hyperloop is a great A-B transport idea but can it replace trains fully in a city or only long distance??
Trains do the point A-B-C-D-E-F.....so on transport well
Can hyperloop be multi point or would you have to keep switching pods and tubes?
Maybe once a pod leaves A to go to B station the pod at B could take off to C station so basiclly the number of pods in the tube would match the number of stations sort of thing.... -
16 billion dollars???? Good luck with that. Just the law suits and environmental studies will eat up half of that money after all we are talking about the least business friendly state in the country.
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I want to contribute to the subconscious mind of our future. I am here to do what I can on earth to do what I can without the cost of my knowledge to better humanity. I personally am sick of being a battery for large corporations to milk me for money and their so called share holders. please let me contribute to the better of humanity, however I can without the cost of living. That is the key to our survival. How do you contribute without having the strains of the "System" keeping you down from doing so???
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Business. smh...
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This was an interesting idea, but it certainly isn't Elon's. He changed the name, but being a billionaire won't change the fact that this hundred year old 'invention' will never leave the drawing board. The physics are sound enough for a small scale version to work, and they have for decades. But it's laughable to think that it could be safely used for any long distance transportation in the near future. A single leak will undoubtedly kill everyone on it. A terrorist will have no problem rupturing the tube, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that is the long list of possibilities for an inevitable catastrophe.
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How about earthquakes, fires, technical problems and medical emergencies? How can you deal with that on a closed tube?
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The title is counterproductive in asserting the influence of one specific person on this project. The whole point is that it's being made into reality by so many active contributors, not just one.
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why do u say air hockey table there is no air inside of a vacuum
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I am exited
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trains dude. this won't bother the trucking industry one bit.
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it's 1200 km/h, not 6500 km/h, you sucker!
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