The propulsion system will operate a high-speed train testing in the desert in Las Vegas.
The future of transportation began perhaps to take shape in the American desert, with the first public trial of a propulsion system that would operate a futuristic project of high-speed train, the “Hyperloop”.
Faced with a group of guests seated in bleachers, a kind of sled slid along a small track installed in the desert near Las Vegas, in the western United States, before braking and stop at a sand bed and a cloud of dust.
In the future, proven by the emerging American company Hyperloop One system should propel capsules carrying passengers or goods on cushions of air in a tube at low pressure, which would allow them to travel in 30 minutes some 600 kilometers from Los Angeles San Francisco.
The idea of Hyperloop, considered by some as science fiction, is based on a propulsion technology that involves using containers levitating magnets and electricity to move in an environment of low friction more than 1,126 kilometers per hour. It was launched three years ago by the American billionaire Elon Musk, who is behind Tesla electric vehicles and aerospace company SpaceX well. But Musk was busy building their companies electric cars and solar roofs, he offered to anyone who would carry it out.
“It is a significant moment for us as a team,” said co-founder Hyperloop One, Shervin Pishevar, before the public sitting in front of the electric rail. “We are on sacred ground for us. The team worked incredibly hard to get to what we call ‘the sign of our Kitty Hawk,’ “Pishevar said, referring to the people of North Carolina where the Wright brothers made fly the first powered airplane in 1903.
“The purpose of this essay is not only moving the sled,” said Brogan BamBrogan, one of the cofounders of Hyperloop One. “It is devise a system of acceleration that can carry passengers and freight, and thus lower costs” to allow the use potential of this technology in the world.
BamBrogan explained that the sled would evolve into a kind of frame for the capsules, capable of accelerating to 640 km / h in a few seconds, with the long-term idea of reaching nearly supersonic speeds.
“You will not feel more acceleration than an airplane taking off,” he said BamBrogan. After acceleration, the capsule will glide over long distances, and thus ensure a peaceful transport and low energy consumption, he said. The emerging company promised a trial scale and real speed in a tube two kilometers from here to year end, in this desert.
There were other promises, like Rob Lloyd, executive director of Hyperloop One: “We will be moving merchandise in 2019, and transporting passengers safely in a Hyperloop in 2021″
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One day before the test, the company announced investments of $ 80 million from various companies, including the French state-owned SNCF, very active in the high-speed transport in Europe, and GE Ventures investment arm of US conglomerate General Electric . In fact, Hyperloop One already has alliances with industry experts as the French Systra (subsidiary of SNCF) or Deutsche Bahn German Engineering and Consulting.
So sure is the progress of the project company that asked businesses, governments, citizens and academics around the world submit proposals for places where they could be built systems. “Competition is a call to the brightest worldwide to give us ideas,” Lloyd said at the trial site, and said the company will build the system in the winning sites.
“I think this will make the physical world what the Internet did to the digital world,” said Andrew Liu, vice president of the multinational engineering AECOM, one of the collaborating firms Hyperloop One.
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