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South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com)
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has partnered with the South Korean government and local universities to build the world's first full-scale Hyperloop system. "The agreement was actually signed back in January but only revealed this week, and sees HTT team up with the South Korean government's department of technological innovation and infrastructure, along with the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building (KICT) and Hanyang University," reports New Atlas. From the report: It involves the construction of a full-scale testbed, licensing of HTT's vacuum tube, levitation, propulsion and battery technologies along with the co-development of safety standards and regulations. The agreement is a multi-year partnership intended to build a new transportation system for South Korea, one which will be known as the HyperTube Express and carry passengers between Seoul and Busan in under 20 minutes, compared to the current three-hour drive. HTT may be setting out to build the world's first Hyperloop but it is no guarantee, with fellow startups Arrivo and Hyperloop One also moving full-steam ahead with their plans. The latter in particular seems to be making solid progress, recently showing off a full-scale test track in Nevada and forming agreements with Russia, Finland and Dubai to explore the feasibility of a Hyperloop in those countries. It's too early to tell who will be first out of the gate, but the competition is certainly heating up.
shit, it's not even transistorized.
Nullius in verba
Someone has not experienced South Korean traffic.
I once traveled Amtrak from Seattle to Atlanta. It took a little over 5.5 days. The ticket was $2,300 since I wanted a place to sleep since sitting in chair would have just been hell for most of a week. Even if Amtrak could do 300 MPH between stops, it still would have taken three entire days (yes, I did the math since I had nothing but time during my trip) including the long layovers to change trains so that is still pretty crappy.
Or we will have a lot of investment in systems you can not travel on without switching providers first.
Is this a legitimate technology or the stuff of legend we will talk about when this generation's tech bubble burts?
I can't for the life of me ever want to use one of these things because of the claustrophobia of being in a tube. Not to mention what happens if a fire breaks out. How do you evacuate? I look very suspiciously at it
You know a town with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel.
No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.
- Introductory remarks before the Simpson's Monorail Song
Could you imagine trying to rig that up like they have in planes or busses?
Here's the thing about hyperloops. You maintain a vacuum you need intense, spread-out pressure along a sturdy structure like an arc/circle/triangle/whatever. If you so much as take a good swing at it with a hammer when it's at a near-vacuum, you ruin the shape and it collapses in a massive, loud implosion. Look up "truck vacuum collapse" on youtube if you're not familiar. These aren't just sensitive to terrorist attacks, they're sensitive to a car running into them and killing everyone on the train. Heck a baseball bat would probably destroy it let alone a rifle round ruining the vacuum AND they're miles and miles long, which you can't guard 24/7. Hyperloops are simply impossible.
When I hear the word hyper loop it reminds me of Just Playin' by JT Playaz. The reason for this is the lyrics of the chorus "The heart of the core, they seek for more, The melody, the hype of the loop" which sounds like the hyper the loop.
Ironically, the saying is that with communism, at least the trains always run on time.
No, that saying is associated with Fascism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_Busan
It is also taken out of context. They did not make the trains run on time. Not even close. My understanding is that it was usually sarcastic. Trains, and the fascists, just weren't that reliable.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Actually the only asian country so far is Thailand.
But the week that thing goes life I will be there and wait in the queues to be one of the first 10,000 to catch a ride.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Fuck off
Actually, it's valid for any totalitarian state. The premise being that you would never claim the trains don't run on time, due to fear of being overheard by an informant.
A church, you are trying to get people to join a church, here, on /., yeah, good luck with that.
Why doesn't Elon get behind this?
http://www.skytran.com/
Hyperloop is a 'pipe' dream which will mostly serve the rich and only a very few with specific travel requirements. SkyTran would serve an entire City or Country with more then just personal public transportation. Run whatever cables/wires you want down the tracks and get fiber, gas, power and more. Every loading station could be a Wifi/Cellular node blanketing the area with open access. There is so much potential in a SkyTran system that it annoys me it doesn't get more exposure and I keep seeing an endless series of Hyperloop stories.
"one which will be known as the HyperTube Express and carry passengers between Seoul and Busan in under 20 minutes, compared to the current three-hour drive."
No one in the history of EVER has made the drive from Seoul to Busan in three hours. It takes two hours by high speed rail going 300 km/h. South Korea has one of the most riven geographies on earth: nearly the entire country is mountainous. If the hyper loop were a straight shot, maybe 20 minutes would be possible between the cities, but that would require an epic tunneling effort.
Oh, and they do have earthquakes there. My hotel room in Seoul shook for a good 30 seconds from a strong earthquake in Kyeongju, a city about 30 minutes north of Busan. There was some damage to historical sites there.