Futuristic High-Speed Tube Travel Could Take You From New York to Los Angeles in 45 M

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Futuristic High-Speed Tube Travel Could Take You From New York to Los Angeles in 45 Minutes

Futuristic High-Speed Tube Travel Could Take You From New York to Los Angeles in 45 Minutes

Traveling across the country or the world via any modern mode of transportation is a time-consuming affair. It can also be really annoying with the long lines, crying babies, armrest hogs, cramped space, etc. Would it not be the most awesome invention ever if some new type of transportation could cut that travel time significantly?

Get ready, because it may only be a few years from becoming a reality. A company called ET3 has plans in the works for the Evacuated Tube Transport, a high-speed transportation tube that uses magnetic levitation. The ETT can travel at speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour, and each tube seats a maximum of six people and comes with a baggage compartment. How does it go so fast? It's airless and frictionless and could have you from New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes, as opposed to the nearly five hours a direct flight would take. It could even have you depart from New York and be in Beijing in two hours.

The tubes would be set up like freeways to prevent crowding and traffic congestion problems. Plus, ET3 claims that passengers need not worry about feeling discomfort while traveling at such high speeds. The high velocity at which the tubes move is equal to 1G of force at top speed, which is similar to the force felt by someone traveling in a car on the freeway.

This would be better then bullet trains. right?

 

[KissMy]

Elon Musk proposed a high speed 'Hyperloop'

 

[KissMy]

An evacuated tube sounds good in theory, but there will be many hurdles.

- Heat is the first that comes to mind. Without air wheels, bearings, motors, electromagnetic coils, electronics & occupants have no way of dissipating heat & will overheat.

- Breathing will be an issue. Every pod must be pressurized with it's own on board oxygen supply.

- Safety in the event of pressurization failure. Fast painful death of occupants due to lack of oxygen & pressure.

 

[ScienceRocks]

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As the founder of both SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has garnered a reputation as being the closest thing we have to a real-life Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. And while the playboy charisma and crime-fighting aspects aren't readily apparent, it does appear that Musk is dedicated to using technology to push us further ahead faster than most in terms of things we can use right now. His latest idea is the Hyperloop, a concept for a next-gen high-speed transportation system that he generally offers little detail on, that is, until yesterday.

During an extended interview at the D11 conference in New York, Musk was asked by a well-known venture capitalist in the audience how his Hyperloop concept, first mentioned about a year ago, was coming along. The anxiousness of the question, which appears to be shared by many in the tech industry, is somewhat understandable.

 

[MikeK]

4kMPH? That would be like a bullet through the barrel of a gun. I would be afraid to get in one of those things until they've been in use for a couple of years and proven safe.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Just think: If they build a stop in Chicago you can get robbed in all three cities before noon!

 

[Billo_Really]

An evacuated tube sounds good in theory, but there will be many hurdles.

- Heat is the first that comes to mind. Without air wheels, bearings, motors, electromagnetic coils, electronics & occupants have no way of dissipating heat & will overheat.

- Breathing will be an issue. Every pod must be pressurized with it's own on board oxygen supply.

- Safety in the event of pressurization failure. Fast painful death of occupants due to lack of oxygen & pressure.

You can only have heat, if there is friction.

If there is no friction, there is no heat.

 

[KissMy]

An evacuated tube sounds good in theory, but there will be many hurdles.

- Heat is the first that comes to mind. Without air wheels, bearings, motors, electromagnetic coils, electronics & occupants have no way of dissipating heat & will overheat.

- Breathing will be an issue. Every pod must be pressurized with it's own on board oxygen supply.

- Safety in the event of pressurization failure. Fast painful death of occupants due to lack of oxygen & pressure.

You can only have heat, if there is friction.

If there is no friction, there is no heat.

How are you going to eliminate friction in a vacuum? You can't glide on air & if you try using electromagnetic coils they will over heat. Bearings & wheels create friction. Human bodies create heat. Motors generate heat & friction.

 

[westwall]

An evacuated tube sounds good in theory, but there will be many hurdles.

- Heat is the first that comes to mind. Without air wheels, bearings, motors, electromagnetic coils, electronics & occupants have no way of dissipating heat & will overheat.

- Breathing will be an issue. Every pod must be pressurized with it's own on board oxygen supply.

- Safety in the event of pressurization failure. Fast painful death of occupants due to lack of oxygen & pressure.

You can only have heat, if there is friction.

If there is no friction, there is no heat.

Tell that to your computer sometime after you take away its cooling fan.....

 

[boedicca]

I wonder how they'll keep from killing passengers with the G-force.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I wonder how they'll keep from killing passengers with the G-force.

Did you read the link? It's one g!

Seems better then bullet trains!!!

 

[KissMy]

At the beginning of each trip they could fill a frame Incorporated reservoir with 10 gallons of ice cold 33 degree water that could absorb the heat rising to 73 degrees over the 45 minute trip. They will still have to figure out the oxygen. If you use a scuba tank, as you add oxygen, air must be exhausted somewhere. I suppose it could vent out into the evacuated tube as vacuum pumps would continuously remove it. This would also remove some heat.