Watch This Full-Scale Hyperloop Prototype Run Its First Successful Test

[ScienceRocks]

Watch This Full-Scale Hyperloop Prototype Run Its First Successful Test
Today in the Nevada desert, a prototype pod hit 300 mph on the way down the test track
Watch This Full-Scale Hyperloop Prototype Run Its First Successful Test

By Eric Limer
May 11, 2016

Hyperloop One—up until yesterday known as Hyperloop Technologies, Inc—just ran the first successful full-scale test of a Hyperloop today. The pod, which floats through magnetic levitation, was successfully propelled down the test track at speeds of 300 mph this afternoon. Not nearly the 700-ish that's the goal inside of a vacuum-sealed tube, but not bad for the open air.

The test was intended to put the loop's linear-electric motor through its paces, a motor that accelerates the Hyperloop sled from 0 to 60 mph in just one second, creating about two and a half Gs of force in the process.

Vice president of engineering for Hyperloop One, Josh Geigel sat down to explain the basics of the motor, which propels the pods through electromagnetic force, to Mashable:

Unlike typical motors, this one has no moving parts. Giegel described the motors as "blades" and what you might get if you took a typical electric motor, cut it down the seam and unrolled it. When powered, these roughly 2-feet tall by 6-inch wide blades create electromagnetic energy that reacts with the pod and pushes it along.

one step forward

 

[ScienceRocks]

Can you imagine one of these say from the west coast to the east??? Or maybe from Portland to LA?

Imagine if we could get this going at 1,200 miles/hour? The ability to transport stuff would be amazing.

 

[MisterBeale]

Waste of energy.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Waste of energy.

Everything is a waste of time and energy to a loserterian. You are the American taliban!!! Praise god you scream!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Don't you idiots ever get tired of trying to tar down this country and its ability to advance? I say this quite seriously.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Don't you idiots ever get tired of trying to tar down this country and its ability to advance? I say this quite seriously.

Spending billions on stuff people will never use is an advance how?

 

[SixFoot]

I want my hoverboard.

 

[MisterBeale]

Waste of energy.

Everything is a waste of time and energy to a loserterian. You are the American taliban!!! Praise god you scream!

Meh, let the free market decide.

As long as it gets not a dime of tax-payer funding, I have nothing against their efforts. Let them putter away.

That being said however, the government is actively involved in bullshitting the public about "global warming." Nothing has a larger carbon foot print than advanced materials and engineering production, development and construction. So if the government is going to tell us one thing, and then turn around and embark on a project that will do the exact opposite, while they are willing to penalize the masses of poor and middle classes in their push to do it? It's a waste of money.

Clearly this type of system is run by electricity, and if they aren't concerned with the CO2 to research it, manufacture it, and most of all, lay down the infrastructure to make in any way useful, then it would be far cheaper to power it with coal.

Again, I call it bullshit. It's pork, and a bureaucratic waste of tax payer money.

The whole thing doesn't make sense for any clear thinking person to support obviously. If you do, you are mental. You can't at once hold the position this is a good thing and that AGW is real. If you don't believe that AGW is real, this is just further proof to you that the establishment knows they are bullshitting you, and that they don't believe it is that serious of a problem either.

Everyone else sees that our government has much bigger problems we need to solve first. Your personal interests are blinding you to the truth sir.

 

[Iceweasel]

What is it with liberals and trains? People don't want them for the most part. You'd have to confiscate a lot of private property to make it happen and no private company is going to pony up the bucks. Liberals congregate into big dense cities then want faster transportation? Move to the country, problem solved.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I want my hoverboard.

Exactly no need to tar anything. I'll even settle for nice cheap vtol

 

[MisterBeale]

What is it with liberals and trains? People don't want them for the most part. You'd have to confiscate a lot of private property to make it happen and no private company is going to pony up the bucks. Liberals congregate into big dense cities then want faster transportation? Move to the country, problem solved.

I think they need to read Atlas Shrugged. They need to find their own person John Galt.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Don't you idiots ever get tired of trying to tar down this country and its ability to advance? I say this quite seriously.

Spending billions on stuff people will never use is an advance how?

And you think people won't use it? lol People use airplanes and drive cars.

Of course, you oppose spending billions on our highway. So it kind of makes sense with you.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Don't you idiots ever get tired of trying to tar down this country and its ability to advance? I say this quite seriously.

Spending billions on stuff people will never use is an advance how?

And you think people won't use it? lol People use airplanes and drive cars.

Of course, you oppose spending billions on our highway. So it kind of makes sense with you.

If it's all private money IDGAF

But tax dollars should not be used at all

Most Americans don't use trains and never will. History has proven that

Our highway system was conceived as a defense measure. This train will be a limited and very expensive means of transportation that will not benefit everyone so no tax dollars should be used