Credit: Tesla Motors/ Ars Technica
Think passenger capsules fired along an airtight tube by manipulating air pressure & magnets.
Elon Musk is pushing this, so just before dismissing it, remember PayPal, SolarCity, Spacex & Tesla Motors ...
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/hyperloop-a-theoretical-760-mph-transit-system-made-of-sun-air-and-magnets/ / magnet magnetic magnetically bearing seal sealed airtight vacuum hard partial passenger passengers futuristic transit system open-source open source proposed design Hyperloop ultra-fast transit system run between San Francisco Los Angeles Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors website founder SpaceX Tesla Motors system moves pods low pressure tube two cities I-5 freeway document aluminum pods two steel tubes direction of travel connected terminus tubes pylons spaced 100 feet apart tube 20 feet in the air tube covered solar arrays generate power PV photovoltaic photo voltaic tubes pods carry people 760 miles per hour pods 28 passengers departing every two minutes location 30 seconds peak times pod about 23 miles between one another while traversing the tube transport capacity 840 passengers per hour capsules’ speed low pressure low-pressure environment, 1/6 pressure atmosphere Mars Earth maintained by vacuum pumps. reduce drag 1,000 times document hard vacuum low pressure solution pneumatic tube passenger capsules passengers reclined chairs air bearing skis float pressurized cushion of air injecting air into the gap bearing /
