3. The hype around Hyperloop is real.
• What?
- High speed train-like pods inside a partially-
vacuum tube.
• Who?
-Elon Musk (SpaceX & Tesla), first open sourced
basic design.
• When?
-Alpha design released, August 2013.
-MIT Hyperloop, 2017.
-Mumbai-Pune Hyperloop announced, 2018.
4. •Where?
-First proposed: Los Angeles to San Francisco, CA (560 km in 35
min at 1200 km/h)
-Mumbai to Pune (usually 3 hours apart, now aimed at 25
minutes)
-Toulouse, France [HyperloopTT]
•Why?
-Super-fast transport. Revolutionary tech. No more traffic
hassle.
•How?
-Capsules through steel tubes maintained at partial vacuum,
eliminating air friction and rolling resistance.
6. Let there be hyperloop!
• It all started with a tweet!
• Elon Musk released his alpha paper on
Hyperloop as 5th mode of transportation in
2012.
• He also outsourced the idea, inviting
engineering students and professionals to
work on it.
• Not patented.
7. • Musk conducted the hyperloop pod
competition, where SpaceX employees
judged entries from all over the world.
• Two major companies sprouted- Virgin
Hyperloop one and Hyperloop Transport
Technologies (HTT)
• Hyperloop one- 248 full time employees.
• HTT- More than 800 part time engineers.
12. Basic working facts:
• Based heavily on Robert Goddard’s Vactrain.
• Electric propulsion needed only for the initial
5% of the track, the rest of the path can be
glided through.
• Linear electric motor propulsion- rotor
doesn’t rotate, instead moves straight down
the stator.
• Rotor mounted to the pod, stator on the
tracks.
13.
14. • Completely self-sufficient- draws energy from
solar and wind farms along the way.
• Very less energy needed.
• Tube tracks aren’t completely in vacuum,
rather have low pressure.
• The passenger pod moving through the low
pressure tubes will compress the air in front
causing air cushions, which will be redirected
by compressor fans.
• Earthquake and weather resistant.
15.
16.
17. • Compared to air hockey where the puck
floats by magnetic levitation.
• Musk has stated that in the event of human
colonization of Mars, Hyperloop could be the
only possible mode of transport.
• No tubes would be required for Mars’ no
gravity, less dense surroundings.
19. Budget
comparisons
Hyperloop tracks
between LA and San
Francisco were
estimated to cost
about 6 billion USD,
whereas the same
distance in train
coverage would cost
upto 68 billion USD.
Hyperloop prides
itself on being cheap
and affordable.
20. Critics and
responses.
• Critics of Hyperloop- uncomfortable
experience, with nausea-inducing
acceleration, plus lateral G-force on
bends in the route.
• Virgin Hyperloop One- a journey via
Hyperloop feels about the same as
an elevator or a passenger plane.
• Travelling in a concrete pipe in a
windowless pod means there isn't
going to be much to look at; Musk's
original vision said that "beautiful
landscape will be displayed in the
cabin“ .
21. Problems.
• Cons- power shutdown
may disrupt the entire
system.
• Seismic activity might
mess with the air cushions,
other natural calamities
might strike. No feasible
evacuation en route.
• More susceptible to
terrorist attacks
22. Hyperloop: a bunch of tubes, right? Well, that,
plus some crazy engineering, magnetic
levitation, giant vacuums and yep, tubes that
could someday fling us around at near
supersonic speeds.
Maybe sooner than we think.
