What Is Hyperloop? Cenk Uygur Interviews Hyperloop Transportation Technologies CEO And COO

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks interviews Bibop Greta and Dirk Ahlborn of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Learn more about Hyperloop Transportation Technologies here: http://hyperlooptransp.com/

In this TYT interview Bibop Greta, Dirk Ahlborn and Cenk Uygur cover a range of topics, including:
- What is a Chief Bibop Officer?
- How the hyperloop works.
- How did you first get involved in Hyperloop Transportation Technologies?
- How did Elon Musk get involved.
- Are you the only company building a Hyperloop? If not, how different are the various designs?
- How did JumpstartFund put together the capital to fund this company?
- How fast will Hyperloop be able to go? What will travel times be?
- How the Hyperloop will be different from Airline industry.
- What are the biggest open questions regarding technology? Economic feasibility?
- When will we be able to take the Hyperloop from LA to San Francisco?
- What’s the status of your prototype in Quay Valley? What obstacles are you running into?
- What’s your vision for human transportation 50, 100, 200 years from now? Is it all Hyperloops? Is it a huge, integrated system with a computerized nerve center controlling it all?
- Will the Hyperloop compete with high-speed trains? What about self-driving cars? Will you be put out of business by Star Trek-like teleportation?
- What transhumanism is.

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Guests:
Bibop Greta
Deputy Chairman, COO & Chief Bibop Officer —
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn
CEO -- Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

About Hyperloop Transportation Technology’s Project:
- Raised tube filled with vacuums and magnets, held aloft off the ground by pylons, using solar, wind, other renewable energy sources to propel capsule carrying passengers within the tube at high speeds. The pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.
- Hyperloop technology was explicitly open-sourced by Elon Musk and SpaceX, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them.
- Pylons, depending on climate, will not interfere with wildlife, allow bird nesting, collect water and sequester carbon
- Top speed: 760 miles per hour empty, 160 miles per hour with passengers (for the prototype. The objective is to achieve the high speeds with passengers eventually as well)
- Prototype track being built in Quay Valley in California will cover five miles, take 32 months to complete, and is estimated to cost $150 million to build. When completed, should be able to transport 10 million passengers.

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