Will publish Hyperloop alpha design by Aug 12. Critical feedback for improvements would be much appreciated.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2013
Future of Transportation
| With a Tweet yesterday, Elon Musk has stirred up a lot of excitement about his mysterious Hyperloop transport project. He revealed that the plans will be open-sourced to accelerate development and that more details will be given next month. |
Musk later clarified that he does not plan to pursue a patent on the Hyperloop and "will publish Hyperloop as open source."
Musk has yet to confirm exactly what his design entails, but in the past he has described it as superior to bullet trains and capable of moving people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes on demand. This means no waiting around for scheduled trains. If you show up and there's no line, you just hop into a waiting pod of some sort and you are on your way.
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In July Musk commented that,
This system I have in mind, how would you like something that can never crash, is immune to weather, it goes three or four times faster than the bullet train... it goes an average speed of twice what an aircraft would do. You would go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes. It would cost you much less than an air ticket than any other mode of transport. I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it, you generate more power than you would consume in the system. There's a way to store the power so it would run 24/7 without using batteries. Yes, this is possible, absolutely.
There is conjecture that the plans will be similar to the ET3 Transporation system that is currently in a funding and research stage.
Engineer John Gardi has also published what he thinks Hyperloop will be via Twitter:
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