Crazy billionaire Elon Musk recently stated that he is on a new project. Focusing on the “Hyperloop” concept, which he has been working on since 2020, Musk announced a new concept on the subject. A train traveling 1000 kilometers per hour. Its name is “Hyperloop Alpha”. Here are Elon Musk’s crazy project and its details that will reduce the distance between Istanbul and Ankara to half an hour…
High-speed train traveling 1000 km per hour from Elon Musk: Hyperloop Alpha!
This project carried out its first human test in 2020. At that time, such a high speed could not be achieved, but an attempt was made to create a perception of trust in people’s eyes. When you look at the studies on the subject, the first thing that may come to your mind is the maglev trains used in Japan. These trains, which travel with the help of electric current and electrical forces, which we call induction current, go in the air and minimize the friction between the rail and the train.
As this friction force decreases to a minimum, the train, which is in the air when it is traveling at its fastest, reduces both the shaking rates and the friction rates. Here, we need to point out that if we look at the train designed by Musk, we are faced with a much higher level technology. To explain it briefly and clearly, let’s put maglev trains in a tube.
Of course, let’s not forget that there are electromagnets around the tube. Then, let’s add large air pumps into this tube every 10 kilometers. In this way, according to the calculations on paper and the information given by Musk, we are currently vacuuming 99.9 percent of the air in the tube. Thus, the air friction in the tube in which the train travels reaches negligible levels, that is, 0 percent.
This may seem impossible at first, but a maglev-like train that will accelerate by using the forces of induction current and magnetism to remove the air resistance acting on the train can reach speeds of up to 1000 kilometers per hour. The question here is, after Musk can implement this train, how will we implement it in our own cities? Because large tubes and air vacuum pumps are the parts that make this job a little difficult and costly.
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