Ahmedabad. 03 Mar 2020, Tuesday
Looking closely at technology that makes it possible to move at speed from pods to cylindrical tubes between cities, American billionaire businessman Richard Branson met the Indian government's transport minister and launched 'Mumbai, Mumbai', the capital of India, and Mumbai. Interestingly, just a month before that, the Maharashtra government has decided to cancel the proposed hyperloop project between Mumbai-Pune. Richard Branson's company 'Virgin Hyperloop' was also working on the project.
While we are still talking about the bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, the world has gone a long way towards a completely new type of transport system called 'Hyperloop' with four times, yes, four times the speed. In fact, for the past several years, the whole world has been engulfed by this idea of hyperloop.
The birth of the idea of hyperloop
Alan Musk, head of SpaceX 's innovation in space and Tesla' s new revolution in the auto industry, was disappointed when the 'high speed' rail project was approved in the California state of America in 2010. They figured out why in the Silicon Valley, where the Internet is collecting data from all over the world or delivering rovers to Mars, the bullet train is one of the most expensive in terms of cost per mile, and one of the slowest bullet trains in the world at 350 kilometers per hour. ?
So Alan Musk thought of a safer, faster, less expensive, more convenient, environment than a bullet train that would not affect the environment or protect itself from earthquakes and was not a barrier to the people living on this route. He only said this in 2012, but the following year he prepared a detailed concept note with his technical details and rushed the world to develop a 'hyperloop'.
Alan Musk's idea initially baffled many (yet many still doubt it!). But Musk also showed science-based methods of removing the two biggest obstacles to traditional vehicles - trains, cars, planes, etc. The first barrier against vehicles is friction and the second is the air barrier.
The original idea of Hyperloop
To avoid friction, Musk imagined his vehicle, like the game of air hockey, floating in the air with the breeze blowing from the air jet engine mounted on the bottom.
He imagined that the entire route of this innovative vehicle system would be made of a tube and a non-air-conditioned vane to avoid air blockage. When the train was not invented, the idea of running the bridge between the two cities must have seemed like a jumble!
How fast can this vehicle hold if there is no ground friction and air barrier? The answer was about 1200 kilometers an hour! For comparison, know that the current fastest express train in India can catch a top speed of 160 km / h, the fastest train in the world is considered to be China, with a speed of 430 km / h. After the plane reaches the sky, it usually flies at 800 to 900 kilometers an hour.
The basic idea is to develop a vacuum tube between two cities in a Hyperloop system, at which speed certain types of pods (a type of vehicle in which the goods can be manipulated) move at that speed. As stated earlier, Alan Musk's idea was to run ahead of the Podswave air jet engines, but now most engineers are developing the use of magnetic fields instead of air.
Alan Musk's idea is not brand new. In the 1990s, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States designed a vacuum tube train, but they never thought the cost could be enough to maintain a vacuum in the tube and keep the pods floating in the air with magnets. General Chat Chat Lounge
Alan Musk didn't limit his idea to his own company, but challenged others to realize it. He began organizing competitions for students and engineers to develop a Hyperloop template. His company has also developed a one-mile test track in California. Over 100 samples were presented in this competition,
In which 2 teams, including one from India, had the opportunity to test their design on the test track. The MIT team was at the forefront of this.
What's the current situation?
Right now, a number of companies around the world are developing the Hyperloop system on their own. In October 2018, a company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies released its first fullscale Hyperloop passenger capsule to the world. The company has begun setting up a test system in China's Southwest Province.
Had the Mumbai-Pune Hyperloop project come true, the current three-hour distance between Mumbai-Pune would have been cut in 25 minutes!
Meanwhile, Alan Musk's own company has jumped in as well. Although he has taken the world in a hyperbole in the name of hyperloop, he has taken the opposite direction by serving the idea of building tubes on pillars.
He has put the idea of skates underground, in tunnels underground, with no driver, running electrics and carrying 16 passengers at a time. Skates will speed up to 250 kilometers an hour. Last month (February 2020) his 'Boring' company completed the excavation of a tunnel under the city of Las Vegas.
Of course, although the theory of Hyperloop sounds perfect in theory, it still raises many questions of security and real costs, but if engineers can find the right solution, the world of transportation is set to change in the next decade!
Pods carrying a passenger in the tube
1. The air inside the tub will create a vacuum and the pods will float in the air on the magnetically charged two plates.
2. The pod will have a comfortable atmosphere like a plane for travelers, which will not even realize the speed of 800 to 1200 km per hour.
3. These pods can move at extraordinarily high speeds as there is no presence of air in the tube and there is no friction of the planks.
A glimpse of the fate of the Hyperloop
Right now, many companies around the world are in competition to realize the idea of Hyperloop. One such Canadian company, Transpod, has put a lot of details about Hyperloop on its site. The pictures above are a concept of the hyperloop of his artist. The company has compared the Hyperloop to Train, Plane for 541km from Toronto to Montreal City (Ahmedabad-Mumbai is 524km):
| Diesel train |
Plane |
Hyperloop |
|
| Time |
6 hours |
1 hour 12 minutes |
45 minutes |
| Top speed |
150 km / h |
840 km / h |
1200 km / h |
| Tickets |
$ 115 |
$ 280 |
$ 80 |
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