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Air Bearings -Air bearing “skis” that conform to tube walls -Tiny holes across surface shoot compressed air forming an air cushion -Air cushion allows for a reduced friction glide Pylons -Shock absorbant to protect against earthquakes -Small footprint for minimal environmental, agricultural, and architectual impact Air Compressor -Reduces air resistance by compressing air in front of capsule -Supplies air bearings with compressed air Linear Electric Motor -Electromagnetic propulsion via magnetic tracks (stators) paired with capsule-mounted rotors -Only required at strategic points on track because of low air resistance Evacuated Tube -Tube pressure of .015 psi (1/1000th Earth’s atmospheric pressure) -Limits air resistance, allows for high speeds Solar Panels -Mounted along length of tube -Can power integral component technologies The Hyperloop in History The Hyperloop in Fiction Capsule -Inner “bubble” provides passenger comfort; Outer shell houses technological components -70 pods could travel on the track at a time, spaced at 30 second intervals $6 In 2013, following the California High Speed Rail Authority’s announcement that construction would begin on a train spanning the state, Elon Musk released a white paper proposing the hyperloop, a fast, safe, and cheap alternative to tra- ditional transportation technologies. Al- though it would primarily be composed of existing technologies and is based on Track Construction With hyperloop test track construction scheduled to begin construction next year, engineers face a number of challenges in planning for a fully operational transportation system. No Sharp Turns At speeds up to 700 mph, the track must be as straight as possible to limit uncomfortable and dangerous G Forces on passengers. High Traffic City Pairs For the hyperloop to be economically viable, it must connect two highly populated cities that foster high exchange of people and goods With these considerations in mind, some communities will not have access to the hyperloop, a concern for engineers and policy makers, as well as citizens whose tax dollars will likely subsidize station construction. Scaling the Hyperloop Hyperloop California High Speed Rail Japanese Shinkansen system Transcontinental railway $60 $20.5 $3 some designs that are over 100 years old, the hyperloop’s unprecedented speed (over 700 mph) and low cost (1/10th the total cost of CHSPA’s proposed train) could potentially change transportation in the 20th century. Here we examine the technical, so- cio-cultural, historical, and economical impacts of a fully realized HYPERLOOP. Ever since writer Michel Verne (son of Jules Verne) featured tube-travelling, air-driven “carriages” in a story from 1888, technologies resembling the hyperloop have a been a science fiction staple, used by authors like Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. The hyperloop would not be the first technology to spring off the pages and into reality after being culturally primed for acceptance. Innovators have hypothesized about the potential for alternatives to traditional rail systems for 100s of years. Framing the hyperloop in terms of its failed predecessors offers insights not only into the forefathers of the hyperloop’s component technologies, but also into the challenges that remain for those working to make it a reality. 1870 1970 2000 Alfred Ely Beach’s Pneumatic Railway, a 300 ft., vacuum sealed test track built under Broadway in New York City In his literary classic, Jules Verne introduced the submarine, which would become a reality only 30 years later Dr. Robert Salter’s “Planetran,” proposed in a Rand Corporation study, shared many features with the proposed hyperloop Mobile phones reminiscent of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek “transponders” were introduced in the 1970s, but not widely adopted until the 1990s Operating in a total vacuum, the ET3 train would have travelled at speeds up to 4000 mph, but the company was never able to build a test track Matt Groening’s cartoon visualization of the year 2999 in “Futurama” features a pneumatic transit system similar to ideas about alternative rail dating back to 1800 Cost (in billions) Top Speed (miles per hour) *^ *” *Estimated total cost, adjusted for inflation ^Based on calculations at CPRR.org “Taniguchi, Mamoru. “High Speed Rail in Japan: A Review and Evaluation of the Shinkansen Train.” California High Speed Rail Series. University of California Transportation Center, 1992. Print. 700 200 200 35 Jiayeng Feng, Allie McCarthy, Chris Miller, Casey Tilton The research presented here was carried out for: Fundamentals of Technology - CCTP 506 Dr. Evan Barba, Dr. JR Osborn Communication, Culture and Technology Georgetown University 2015 Selected bibliography: -Disch, Thomas M. The dreams our stuff is made of: How science fiction conquered the world. Simon and Schuster, 2000. -Levin, Irwin P., et al. Measurement of psychological factors and their role in travel behavior. No. 649. 1977. -Musk, Elon. “Hyperloop Alpha.” Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Apr. 2015. -Oster, Daryl, Masayuki Kumada, and Yaoping Zhang. “Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3): A Maximum Value Global Transportation Network for Passengers and Cargo.” Journal of Modern Transportation 19.1 (2011): 42–50. Print. -Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. First Edition, With a New Preface edition. University of California Press, 2014. Print. Find us online at coolhyperloop.wordpress.com @Hyperloop_CCT San Francisco Los Angeles proposed proposed Est. 1869 Est. 1964
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Air Bearings-Air bearing “skis” that conform to tube walls-Tiny holes across surface shoot compressed air forming an air cushion-Air cushion allows for a reduced friction glide

Pylons-Shock absorbant to protect against earthquakes-Small footprint for minimal environmental, agricultural, and architectual impact

Air Compressor-Reduces air resistance by compressing air in front of capsule-Supplies air bearings with compressed air

Linear Electric Motor-Electromagnetic propulsion via magnetic tracks (stators) paired with capsule-mounted rotors-Only required at strategic points on track because of low air resistance

Evacuated Tube-Tube pressure of .015 psi (1/1000th Earth’s atmospheric pressure)-Limits air resistance, allows for high speeds

Solar Panels-Mounted along length of tube-Can power integral component technologies

The Hyperloop in History

The Hyperloop in Fiction

Capsule-Inner “bubble” provides passenger comfort; Outer shell houses technological components-70 pods could travel on the track at a time, spaced at 30 second intervals

$6

In2013, following the California High Speed Rail Authority’s announcement that construction would begin on a train spanning the state, Elon Musk released a white paper proposing the hyperloop, a fast, safe, and cheap alternative to tra-ditional transportation technologies. Al-though it would primarily be composed of existing technologies and is based on

Track ConstructionWith hyperloop test track construction scheduled to begin construction next year, engineers face a number of challenges in planning for a fully operational transportation system.

No Sharp TurnsAt speeds up to 700 mph, the track must be as straight as possible to limit uncomfortable and dangerous G Forces on passengers.

High Traffic City PairsFor the hyperloop to be economically viable,

it must connect two highly populated cities that foster high exchange of people and goods

With these considerations in mind, some communities will not have access to the hyperloop, a concern for engineers and policy makers, as well as citizens whose tax dollars will likely subsidize station construction.

Scaling the Hyperloop

Hyperloop

California High Speed Rail

Japanese Shinkansen system

Transcontinental railway

$60

$20.5

$3

some designs that are over 100 years old, the hyperloop’s unprecedented speed (over 700 mph) and low cost (1/10th the total cost of CHSPA’s proposed train) could potentially change transportation in the 20th century. Here we examine the technical, so-cio-cultural, historical, and economical impacts of a fully realized HYPERLOOP.

Ever since writer Michel Verne (son of Jules Verne) featured tube-travelling, air-driven “carriages” in a story from 1888, technologies resembling the hyperloop have a been a science fiction staple, used by authors like Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. The hyperloop would not be the first technology to spring off the pages and into reality after being culturally primed for acceptance.

Innovators have hypothesized about the potential for alternatives to traditional rail systems for 100s of years. Framing the hyperloop in terms of its failed predecessors offers insights not only into the forefathers of the hyperloop’s component technologies, but also into the challenges that remain for those working to make it a reality.

1870 1970 2000

Alfred Ely Beach’s Pneumatic Railway, a 300 ft., vacuum sealed test track built under Broadway in New York City

In his literary classic, Jules Verne introduced the submarine, which would become a reality only 30 years later

Dr. Robert Salter’s “Planetran,” proposed in a Rand Corporation study, shared many features with the proposed hyperloop

Mobile phones reminiscent of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek “transponders” were introduced in the 1970s, but not widely adopted until the 1990s

Operating in a total vacuum, the ET3 train would have travelled at speeds up to 4000 mph, but the company was never able to build a test track

Matt Groening’s cartoon visualization of the year 2999 in “Futurama” features a pneumatic transit system similar to ideas about alternative rail dating back to 1800

Cost (in billions)

Top Speed(miles per hour)

*^

*”

*Estimated total cost, adjusted for inflation^Based on calculations at CPRR.org“Taniguchi, Mamoru. “High Speed Rail in Japan: A Review and Evaluation of the Shinkansen Train.” California High Speed Rail Series. University of California Transportation Center, 1992. Print.

700

200

200

35

Jiayeng Feng, Allie McCarthy, Chris Miller, Casey Tilton

The research presented here was carried out for:Fundamentals of Technology - CCTP 506

Dr. Evan Barba, Dr. JR OsbornCommunication, Culture and Technology

Georgetown University 2015Selected bibliography:

-Disch, Thomas M. The dreams our stuff is made of: How science fiction conquered the world. Simon and Schuster, 2000. -Levin, Irwin P., et al. Measurement of psychological factors and their role in travel behavior. No. 649. 1977.-Musk, Elon. “Hyperloop Alpha.” Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.-Oster, Daryl, Masayuki Kumada, and Yaoping Zhang. “Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3): A Maximum Value Global Transportation Network for Passengers and Cargo.” Journal of Modern Transportation 19.1 (2011): 42–50. Print.-Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. First Edition, With a New Preface edition. University of California Press, 2014. Print.

Find us online at

coolhyperloop.wordpress.com@Hyperloop_CCT

San Francisco

Los Angeles

proposed

proposed

Est. 1869

Est. 1964

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