{"id":3928,"date":"2013-08-13T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2013-08-13T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:20:55","slug":"sci-tech-elon-musk-unveils-the-hyperloop-super-fast-mass-transit-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Elon Musk unveils the Hyperloop super-fast mass transit concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has posted details of his Hyperloop mass transportation system concept :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/hyperloop\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/hyperloop\">Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/hyperloop\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/hyperloop\">Hyperloop | SpaceX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog_images\/hyperloop-alpha.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog_images\/hyperloop-alpha.pdf\">Hyperloop-Alpha.pdf<\/a> &#8211; writeup starting witha general overview and then followed by a technical analysis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-08-12\/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-08-12\/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop\">Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop &#8211; Businessweek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-08-12\/hyperloop-physics-101-with-elon-musk\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-08-12\/hyperloop-physics-101-with-elon-musk\">Hyperloop Physics 101 With Elon Musk &#8211; Businessweek<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems like a clever approach. More practical than the air-tube or vacuum tube concepts that have been around forever.<\/p>\n<p>Elon recently said he would turn the idea over for open source style development and reserve his time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\">Tesla Motors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope someone or group can push it to a hardware test level. As with innovative concepts for rockets, the upfront costs for such systems are so high, it is very difficult to get through development problems and setbacks without running out of money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3929\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=3929\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1023,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ilustration\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3929\" alt=\"Ilustration\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ilustration-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has posted details of his Hyperloop mass transportation system concept : Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors Hyperloop | SpaceX Hyperloop-Alpha.pdf &#8211; writeup starting witha general overview and then followed by a technical analysis. Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop &#8211; Businessweek Hyperloop Physics 101 With Elon Musk &#8211; Businessweek Seems like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Elon Musk unveils the Hyperloop super-fast mass transit concept<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-11m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9656,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9656","url_meta":{"origin":3928,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Elon Musk announces plan to build a Hyperloop test track","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted several times about Elon Musk's Hyperloop\u00a0fast mass transit concept. 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