Hey guys I had this idea is it cool?
>>894169
Brunel and a load of other engineers already beat him to the punch.
It's kinda sad that the media praised Musk for thinking up something that has already been extensively researched by engineers since the late 19th century but I guess you can't expect much from the "quick&dumb" media cycle.
it looks like that thing you use at the bank drive thru
>>894169
Wasnt your idea Elon. Just suck it up and be second.
>ET3 transportation system
>http://www.et3.com/
been around waaaay longer than your anal tube.
>>894301
>>894197
Brunels pneumatic railway and the Hyperloop are two entirely different things.
In the pneumatic railway the carriages are still running rails out in the open. They're connected to the piston, which is running a tube. The piston is pulled along by a vacuum.
That's totally different to the Hyperloop where the carriages would be enclosed fully within the tube, which would be under a vacuum to eliminate air resistance and allow very high speeds.
That doesn't mean the Hyperloop isn't a) dumb b) been thought of before.
>>894169
>clear tube
>no windows
for hwæt pvrpos.jpeg
>>894306
>In the pneumatic railway the carriages are still running rails out in the open. They're connected to the piston, which is running a tube. The piston is pulled along by a vacuum.
Fun fact, this is similar to the way aircraft carrier steam catapults function, but with positive-pressure steam instead of pneumatic suction.
>>894169
It's a scaled up goddamn pneumatic mail system.
>>894302
That image displays the main problem with all these "America to Europe in x hours" rail proposals. You're going to have to go across north-east Russia, and no reasonable amount of money is going to build and maintain your tubes across the thousands of kilometres of cold, mountainous, fuck-all that's out there.
Sure, why not.>>894587
Russia single handedly maintains the trans Siberian rail way, why can't numerous countries maintain this?
>>894782
The Trans Siberian Railway hugs the southern edge of Russia. It for the most part follows reasonably level terrain and is never more than 20-30 km from civilisation. It also handles plenty of local passengers and freight that helps cover its cost. People maintaining their section of track don't have to go far to work on repairs.
North-East Russia, on the other hand, is over 2,000 kilometres of about the most impassable terrain on the planet. With the exception of a handful of settlements on the coast, there's nobody living there. There's no roads running through it. You would probably have an easier time running a track across the Arctic.
>>894926
>There's no roads running through it
Just connect Anadyr to the Road of Bones, easy peasy.
>>894169
Anybody that thinks windmills are important enough to add to this picture is probably dumb enough to think they're a viable means of energy production and is probably dumb enough to think this is a viable means of human transportation.
>>895380
Yeah the pump houses were huge. Although that only worked up until the leather flaps started to degrade and then it leaked like a bitch, which was the reason it got dropped as a concept.
>>894169
I don't think Elon Musk cares that much about the idea being admitted to him, he knows it existent before him. But if he and his company manages to take it off the ground I do think that he, his company and all his investors receives the gratitude for it.
>>895443
You must be absolutely fucking awful at math.
The thing about Musk, or others like him, is that what they are doing isn't necessarily new in a groudbreaking sense, but are simply pushing the edge of the envelope by challenging assumptions in engineering. So hyperloop is what happens if you say a vacuum train doesn't need a full vacuum, and you don't need the track to provide levitation support systems. Same as the RocketLabs guys who said fuck the engineering police, and put electric turbopumps on small rocket engines, if the batteries get good enough, which they have within the last 5 years. Same with Musk defying conventional wisdom of large traction batteries and using laptop cells by the thousands.
