Tuesday, September 24, 2013

super-fast transport vehicle for supersonic speeds

San Francisco, California - The design of super-fast transport system in California that vehicle is named by "Hyperloop" revealed on Monday by entrepreneur and creator, Elon Musk.

As quoted by AFP, Hyperloop carry passengers in the form of a capsule at a rate approaching supersonic speeds.

Musk, who heads the manufacture of electric cars Tesla Motors and SpaceX private spacecraft, issued a document of 57 pages describes vehicle project that will connect Los Angeles and San Francisco in just 35 minutes.



"Hyperloop consists of a low-pressure pipe contains capsules (the passenger) that will go with both low and high speeds along the pipeline corridor," the document states.

"Capsule is supported by a cushion of air with compressed air chamber and raised in aerodynamics."

Musk says no plans to build such a system, but offers resources openly plan to be forwarded by the other party.

The system is capable of producing speeds up to 1,220 kilometers the vehicle speed per hour.

Musk said the system is in the "concorde and bullet train and an air hockey table."

This system can be described capable of linking two major cities in California, so according to Musk would be more economical to connect a line which is about 1,500 kilometers.

In addition to SpaceX and Tesla, Musk was born in South Africa but has American citizenship - play carefully on SolarCity, a solar panel manufacturer for household and perusahaan.nak.

Musk (42) first time to reap huge profits when selling Zip2 to U.S. computer company, Compaq at a price of more than $ 300 million in 1999.

His company merged with another X.Com PayPal is an online payment company who purchased through an Internet auction eBay for 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2002.