High Speed Rail, Maglevs & Hyperloops
View allAll Photos Tagged Hyperloop
No, this is not a trip in a Hyperloop vacuum tube, this is the shuttle tunnel that connects the terminals at Zürich airport. The shuttle is a self driving train. I sat at the front to take this motion blur exposure.
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the curves.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC0479_hdr1bal1pai1c
Close-up on the 30 m long (3.2 m diameter) Hyperloop test facility at the Green Village, Delft University of Technolgy.
Cannot wait to take a ride ;-)
Bam.com: Hardt unveils Europe's first Hyperloop test facility in Delft
delfthyperloop.nl: Delft Hyperloop
Thanks for visiting and commenting!
This Vinean vehicle, appears for the first time in :Yoko Tsuno comic series - The Curious Trio by Roger Leloup.
There is also in the book : The Forge of Vulcan.
In Original text, and in french, the exact word is "Magnétoporteur". Translate in “Electro Sender” in English version. But this translation sounds bad. Word by world, Magneto Carrier sound better.
it is a "style of futuristic magnetic train" used by the Vineans (humanoids aliens). For the inspiration picture : downthetubes.net/?p=210 or here downthetubes.net/?p=17979
The Electro Sender work in a electromagnetic tube/corridor. It is named also "magneto-carrier" on some fan-websites of Yoko Tsuno. Or if you prefer, it is Futurist Hyperloop , already in the comic since 1974 !
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
Today I went to a Hyperloop presentation and levitation demo at Stanford University. It was super cool. The event was organized by the Science Fiction Society of Silicon Valley, that promotes science fiction that becomes reality.
In 2012 Elon Musk of SpaceX proposed a train system called "Hyperloop" for superfast travel between cities and made his design open to the public. Elon held a competition for Hyperloop builders this January. One of the contestants was rLoop, a crowdsourced company. The founder of rLoop gave a TEDx style talk.
After the talk a colleague with an OCCUPY MARS t-shirt did a demo on a small scale model. The pod (the car that moves in the Hyperloop tube) was levitating by magnets above an aluminum surface. Here he shows the bottom side of the pod. You can see the four rotating magnets.
I processed a soft HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the curves and color balance.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC5592_hdr1sof2c
Hyperloop Explained | The B1M
Right-click link. Select "Open in New Window"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcikLQZI5wQ
2019 Time Is The Enemy v.1
www.zazzle.com/2019_photographic_art_calendar_by_manuel_b...
60% off with code TOPPICKSZAZZ
ends today
Note: Discount Coupons change daily and appear under the retail price.
2019 Time Is The Enemy v.2
www.zazzle.com/2019_photographic_art_calendar_by_manuel_b...
60% off with code TOPPICKSZAZZ
ends today
that's only $13.16 for an 11 x 14 inch HD glorious 2019 calendar. if you enjoy my work you will love the calendar. it's very handsome. most of the images in these 2 version are recent with a mix of abstractions and typical photographs of my usual grunge and debris.
Merry Christmas Cowboys and Cowgirls
With Me - Without Me
She used to be a famous athlete and a mother. In another life, before the hyperloop crash, six years ago.
She was rescued and given new legs by the all-powerful Kirkland corporation. Their investigation indicated that cyber-terrorists targeted the IA that ran the European hyperloop system and caused the crash. They said she could join their security forces, and avenge her family.
So Helena began chasing criminals, her Tālāria legs allowing her to run faster and jump higher than ever before. She wasn't sure of what she was exactly, between a cop and a mercenary, but she was good at what she did. She almost enjoyed it.
But she never found those responsible for her accident. Until last week, when she discovered the truth : there were no cyber-terrorists, it was just a story they made up to cover the malfunction of their IA and give her motivation to use her to do their dirty work. Kirkland corporation is the real responsible of the loss of her family. How do you fight the most powerful company in the world ?
Looking over to the Northern Motorway from Westhaven Drive (Auckland).
Just a little experiment in light trails...
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Drawing heavily from Robert Goddard's vactrain, a hyperloop is a sealed tube or system of tubes through which a pod may travel free of air resistance or friction conveying people or objects at high speed while being very efficient, thereby drastically reducing travel times over medium-range distances.
“100 on the dash get me close to God, we don’t pray for love, we just pray for cars.” -Some random song.
“I ain’t able to go fast, but I’m gonna look cool as hell try’n tu” -HyperLoop.
Hey dear Lego community,
It is time again to show you my 5th creation for season 3 of the disney+ series THE MANDALORIAN. First I have to say that chapter 22 wasn't my favourite chapter so it was a little bit hard to find something I want to build. Hopefully I choose a scene which you also like:
Bo-Katan Kryze, Din Djarin, and Grogu travel on Kryze's Gauntlet starfighter to the idyllic planet Plazir-15, which is covered in Mandalorian-style domes. [...]
The hyperloop pod brings them to a banquet hosted by Plazir-15's rulers, Captain Bombardier and the Duchess, who are joined by several aliens including Biths, Rodians, Sullustans, and an Ithorian.They explain that they have a problem with malfunctioning reprogrammed Imperial droids, who have caused traffic accidents, heavy equipment failures, and assaults. Bombardier offers to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Mandalore in exchange for Kryze's help. The two travel to the loading docks where repurposed B2 battle droids are loading boxes of cargo. Djarin alludes to his past encounter with droids. [...] To test the foreman's theory, Djarin tangles with several B2 loading droids. Most ignore him until Djarin knocks the crate out of the hands of one. The B2 battle droid pushes Djarin aside and runs away with the Mandalorians in pursuit.
The Mandalorians dodge the object and continue their pursuit through a bar. Djarin corners the droid by jumping out of a window and landing on it. Kryze shoots the droid with her blasters. [...]
My small vignette shows exactly the end of the pursuit with the destroyed Super battle droid on the floor, after Mando jumed throgh the window and Hit him hard.
Please share your opinion about my work in the comments below, see you for the next one 😌
Greetings Kevin
Elon Musk was spectacular as the closing TED 2017 interview this morning.
Here is the video and a summary rom the TED Blog:
Why are you boring?
“We’re trying to dig a hole under LA, and this is to create the beginning of what will be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion,” Musk says, describing the work of his new project, The Boring Company. Musk shows a video of what this system could look like, with an electric car-skate attached to an elevator from street level that brings your car vertically underground into a tunnel. There’s no speed limit in the tunnel — and the car-skates are being designed to achieve speeds of 200 km/h, or about 130 mph. “You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5-6 minutes,” Musk says.
Why aren’t flying cars a better solution?
“I do rockets, so I like things that fly,” Musk says. “There’s a challenge of flying cars in that they’ll be quite noisy. If something’s flying over your head, a whole bunch of flying cars going all over the place, that is not an anxiety-reducing situation … You’ll be thinking, ‘Did they service their hubcap, or is it going to come off and guillotine me?'”
How will these tunnels tie in with Hyperloop?
The Hyperloop test track is the second biggest vacuum chamber in the world, smaller only than the Large Hadron Collider, Musk says. The proposed transportation system would propel people and freight in pod-like vehicles in a vacuum, and tunnels end up being great for creating vacuum. “We’re cautiously optimistic that it’ll be faster than the world’s fastest bullet train, even over a .8-mile stretch,” Musk says of Hyperloop.
What’s happening at Tesla?
Tesla Model 3 is coming in July, Musk says, and it’ll have a special feature: autopilot. Using only passive optical cameras and GPS, no LIDAR, the Model 3 will be capable of autonomous driving. “Once you solve cameras for vision, autonomy is solved; if you don’t solve vision, it’s not solved … You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras.”
Musk says that Tesla is on track for completing a fully autonomous, cross-country LA to New York trip by the end of 2017. “November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey,” Musk says.
More news from Tesla: a semi truck, which Musk reveals with a teaser photo. It’s a heavy-duty, long-range semi meant to alleviate heavy-duty trucking. “With the Tesla Semi, we want to show that an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi. If you had a tug of war competition, the Tesla Semi will tug the diesel semi uphill,” Musk says. And it’s nimble — it can be driven around “like a sports car,” he says.
What else is going electric?
Showing a concept photo of a house with a Tesla in the driveway, Powerwalls on the side of the house and a solar glass roof, Musk talks about his vision for the home of the future. Most houses in the US, he says, have enough roof area for solar panels to power all the needs of the house. “Eventually almost all houses will have a solar roof,” he says. “Fast forward 15 years from now, it’ll be unusual to have a roof that doesn’t have solar.”
And to store all that electricity needed to power our homes and cars, Musk has made a huge bet on lithium-ion batteries. Moving on to a discussion of the Gigafactory, a massive diamond-shaped lithium-ion battery factory near Sparks, Nevada, Musk talks about how power will be stored in the future.
“When it’s running full speed, you can’t see the cells without a strobe light,” Musk says as a video of the factory pumping out Li-ion batteries plays behind him. Musk thinks we’ll need about 100 such factories to power the world in a future where we don’t feel guilty about using and producing energy, and Tesla plans to announce locations for another four Gigafactories late this year. “We need to address a global market,” Musk says, hinting that the new factories will be spread out across the world.
Let’s talk SpaceX.
At TED2013, Musk talked about his dream of building reusable rockets — a dream he’s seen realized with the success of the Falcon 9, which to date has had nine successful launches and landings. Earlier this year, a used rocket completed a second successful mission and landing for the first time in history. “It’s the first reflight of an old booster where that reflight is relevant,” Musk says. “Reusability is only relevant if it is rapid and complete, like an aircraft or a car … You don’t send your aircraft into Boeing in between flights.”
What about Mars?
Showing plans for a massive rocket that’s the size of a 40-story building, Musk talks about what it’ll take to get to Mars. “The thrust level for this configuration is about four times the thrust of a Saturn V moon rocket,” the biggest rocket humanity has ever created, he says. “In units of 747s, this would be the thrust equivalent of 120 747s with all engines blazing.” The rocket is so massive that it could take a fully-loaded 747 as cargo. While it may seem large now, “future spacecraft will make this look like a rowboat,” Musk says.
And when can we can hope to see it? Musk thinks the Interplanetary Transport System SpaceX revealed earlier this year will take 8-10 years to build. “Our internal targets are more aggressive,” he says.
“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing,” Musk says.
But why work on projects like getting to Mars when we have so many problems here on Earth?
Sustainable energy will happen no matter what, out of necessity, Musk says. “If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy … The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur,” he says.
But becoming a multi-planet species isn’t inevitable. “If you look at the progress in space, in 1969 we were able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle, which could only take people to low-Earth orbit. Now we take no one to orbit. That’s the trend — it’s down to nothing. We’re mistaken when we think technology automatically improves. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.”
What’s your motivation?
“The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question,” Musk says, “But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”