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Student Engineers Build Hyperloop Test Pods That Set a New Speed Record (bbc.com)
Engineering students from the Technical University of Munich have won a hyperloop competition that aims to refine the technologies that could underpin the super-fast transport system. According to the BBC, "The team's pod hit 457km/h (290mph) on a 1.2km (0.75 mile) test track." This marks the third win in a row for the team. From the report: In the latest round of the competition, the Munich team, WARR Hyperloop, outpaced rival capsules, which could manage speeds of only 88mph (Delft University) and 55mph (EPF Loop, from Switzerland), to beat its own record speed, 323km/h, set in the second competition, in September 2017. In a change from earlier competitions, all the pods being tested this time had to be self-propelled. Previously, the pods could rely on a SpaceX-built "pusher" vehicle that helped them travel down the test tube.
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290 mph is fucking pathetic. A regular maglev can do nearly 100 mph faster.
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Rather than pump the air out of the tube, treat the tube like a wind tunnel and blow air through the tube, or through injectors along the tube, at what ever speed you want the vehicle to go. For 100 - 500 Km stretches pumping tons of air out of the tube would take hours and maintaining the vacuum would take a lot of expensive energy. The inside of the tube could be dimpled or treated in some way to reduce the Reynolds Number. The positive pressure would keep the weather out and make leaks easy to find ... they'd whistle.
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A fast and efficient way for kids to get to the Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good.
Who needs scenery or fresh air when every time you open the window your eyes pop out of your head and your lungs jump out of your chest.
I am curious about the full conditions of the track/tube that they do not tell us about. However, the average commercial jet cruises around 540 mph. So this is more than 1/2 of typical commercial jets. So, they are getting there. In addition, hyperloop should be cheaper to run than a jet. While tracks have to be put in, and pressure brought down, hyperloop should have much lower labor hours, lower drag (9000 meter vs 36000 meter ), and much lower energy costs.
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TFS mixes mph and km/h. Poor practice to report the slower ones in mph and the fastest in km/h; it makes the difference look larger. It's large enough that you don't need to exaggerate it.
Either Musk has a great idea that is just waiting for more swing, from his personal posse of enginerds while pumping the schools full of it, or they are all stumped with this engineering madness that was settled in the 70's, and require new talent to try and find an actual method to achieve his preposterous claims of making a fully interconnected tunnel with hyperspeeds in a vacuum (or lets just split hairs and make it a partial one) while maintaining full safety from rapid decompression.
It quite literally looks like a surfboard. It is not much taller than the track it's riding on. I could fire a bullet down the track and it would go very fast, but by no means would I call it a 'prototype.'
Yet another rigged 'competition' to grab headlines for a snake-oil project.
Come back when a scale-model prototype that is somewhat similar to the size of the pipe and could carry scale sized passengers reaches this type of speed.
Normal high speed trains (CRH) in China travel at 300 kph. The maglev train from Shanghai to Pudong International travels at ~430 kph. I have been on both types at these speed (they conveniently put the current speed in every car). The maglev does always travel this fast, ostensibly due to energy demand during peak usage (couple of times I was on it we only broke 300 kph). The shanghai maglev is about 30km long. Hyper loop needs to be much faster to impress me given the existing in-service trains.
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I cant believe the modWHORES are still shillibg his bullshit.
I cant wait for these "students" to build a model submarine and prove those kids should have just waited through 6-18 months of submarine development.
Yeah but its full of chinks. No one wants to ride a train full of smelly chinese. They smell like gay buttsex and mung.
Slants are way more tolerable than camel jockies.
To be fair, the Delft University entry possibly reached a speed greater than what was entered in the official record, but the judges were obligated to use the speed the pod had obtained when it inexplicably vanished, leaving behind only a trail of flames.*
*As an interesting coincidence, it should be noted that the Delft University pod most closely resembled the ones depicted in Elon Musk's initial concept drawings.
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If the tube is a vacuum, then the pods would need to provide oxygen and be pressurized for occupants. This seems like another complication of the hyperloop concept that maglev doesn't need to deal with.
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