For a select few the way we ll move ourselves across the world tomorrow is in a glass tube at speeds of nearly 800mph.
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Several firms afterward introduced ideas for preliminary initiatives in California, Texas as well as other spots, but Musk with the exceptional agencies, including private Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceBy, and Tesla Motors Inc electrical vehicle enterprise, have not been included.
But the startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), which is planning to soon break ground on a Hyperloop test track, has found a pretty effective way of keeping costs down: The company doesn’t pay any of its employees, including its CEO Dirk Ahlborn. The environment inside this tube is filled with low pressure that is similar to an airplane in high altitudes.
The capsule will essentially ride on a cushion of air that will be propelled by a magnetic linear accelerator which will be running above or below the ground under low pressure steel tubes, according to Musk.
Elon Musk announced his futuristic Hyperloop in 2013, describing it as a combination of a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air-hockey table. Musk also claims that this can be an alternative to a high speed rail system that is much safer and faster at a lower cost which will also be convenient.
On June 15, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer, announced it would be building a mile-long test track near their headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
But presenting the Hyperloop project to a European audience for the first time in Vienna at the Pioneer s Festival in May, Ahlborn said HTT were also on the cusp of building their own track. As per proposal, the construction will start by 2016 and it will be an 8 Kilometer track that will pass through Quay Valley town in California.
It s not just the technology that Ahlborn is pioneering either.
“We are working with nearly everybody who is interested and wants to join us and receive their part of the company”, Ahlborn continued, stressing that Hyperloop was able to attract some real talent, employees who can still maintain their day jobs while working for the company.
That means that individuals and organizations, including publicly traded companies, are all involved.
But what s exciting for him right, he said, is the potential.
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Although we can never know what the future has in stock for us, let us all forget for just a second about our usual cars, trains, busses and think of how a new method of transportation can turn everything around. Perhaps bee hives, different energy solutions, gardens or something else will enhance the experience and encourage anyone needing to live next to a concrete pylon to accept and even welcome their new “neighbor”.
