Answered : All Your Queries On Hyperloop

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Answered : All Your Queries On Hyperloop

Ever thought of waking up a little before sunrise to head to Chennai for breakfast and return to your home in Bengaluru well before the 9 am tution? Such a proposal, offering supersonic land travel to turn this scenario into reality, is awaiting a Central government nod. It would cost $1 billion compared to $12 billion for the Bullet Train expected to be ready by 2023. High-pressure capsules, travelling in a partially-vacuumed tube at speeds up to 1,216 Km/hour, promise to transport people from one point to another in little over half the time taken by flights, charging less than half the price for the ticket. This transportation system is the Hyperloop Transportation System (HTS), promising speeds up to 1,216 km/hour - which means less than 30 minutes to cover 345 km from Bengaluru to Chennai. The HTS relies completely on renewable energy. Solar panels atop the tube and wind turbines in the pylons generate surplus energy.

What is Hyperloop?
'Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and transportation that propels a pod-like a vehicle through a near-vacuum tube at more than airline speed'. Although the concept of high-speed travel in tubes has been around for decades, it was Elon Musk in 2012 reintroduced this concept using updated technologies, incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsule ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. 

Hyperloop will run on renewable energy
There will be solar panels on top of the tube, and wind turbines in the pylons. It will generate more energy than it needs. It would be like having a power plant that also transports people. Though the cost of travelling in the loop will be just a fraction of what we pay for airlines, it will be costlier as compared to the bullet train project in India.


 
 
'India doesn't need bullet train'
Bibop G Gresta is chairman and co-founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which is in talks with the Indian government to build super-fast transport system in the country.

Q Tell us how will Hyperloop become a reality in India?
By giving us the land to build Hyperloop. I can promise the testing of full scale of Hyperloop 38 months after the condition of permit gets approved.

Q Do you think India will have a Hyperloop even before we get our first bullet train?
Yes of course. A country like India doesn’t have to start with middle step (bullet train) to achieve that technology. It can actually leap frog to the latest (Hyperloop). India has an amazing opportunity. India doesn’t need bullet train. It is inefficient.

Q How safe is Hyperloop?
It is much safer than any other system invented on this planet. In the air industry has coefficient of 0.007 accidents every hundred millennial passenger miles. It means every 3.75 year an airplane goes down. This is insanity. In Hyperloop we eliminate all the risks because the passenger is inside the tube. In case there is an emergency we can quickly reinject the air. It is protected from turbulences, weather conditions, you cannot disrupt it.

Q What will be the cost of Hyperloop project in India? How much will the ticket cost?
The cost should be evaluated through a feasibility study. Building a Hyperloop is not like making a mobile phone. Generically, an average Hyperloop can cost 20 to 40 million per kilometre. You build something which is profitable because we use a combination of renewable energy, soil, wing and kinetic forces. This enables us to produce up to 30 per cent more electricity. This will make the ticket cost cheap for passengers but in some time slots we will use tickets only to regulate traffic. We can give travel for free.

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VIDYA GAKHAR G.D. GOENAKA PASCHIM VIHAR

Amazing.!

Priya M G NEW BALDWIN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL

It is good to read that Hyperloop will run on renewable source of energy.

Priya M G NEW BALDWIN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL

It is good to read that Hyperloop will run on renewable source of energy.

Ankur Soni New Horizon Public School Airoli, Navi Mumbai

This system should be brought quickly by India, I think

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