The Story of Virgin Hyperloop One

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There has been a lot of innovation within the four main modes of transportation of cars, planes, train, and ships, in the past 100 years.
But I’m am excited about the fifth mode of transportation, the Hyperloop.
There is so much happening with the hyperloop scene right now, between the companies Virgin Hyperloop One, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies along with Elon Musk but today we are going to zero in on Virgin Hyperloop One.
But before we get started, let’s cover why the Hyperloop is so cool and how it works.
In 2012, Elon Musk came up with an idea based heavily on Robert Goddard’s vactrain invention, that would provide travelers an alternative to flying or driving.
He aimed to develop a transportation system that would be:
Safer; Faster; Cheaper; more convenient; Immune to weather and Sustainably self-powering compared to alternative modes of travel.
The came up with the Hyperloop, which will offer the speed of air travel with the convenience of ground-based travel.
Since Musk was busy with SpaceX and Tesla, he made the concept open sourced and encouraged universities and companies to develop the technology and make it a reality.
While parts of the Hyperloop design differ from company to company, and from Musk original concept, the main idea behind the Hyperloop is the capsule to float in low-pressure tubes like an air hockey puck and propelled by electromagnetic motors.
Now let’s quickly touch on the history of Virgin Hyperloop One.
Years before Branson came into the picture, the seed for the company was planted when Pishevar and Musk traveled to Cuba together in 2013 on a Humanitarian mission where Musk told Pishevar about the idea.
Here’s a funny picture of the trip, Pishevar is sitting in the back with Musk and the action Sean Penn in driving.
A year later Pishevar founded the company in the Hyperloop Technologies along with co-founder Josh Giegel in a garage in LA.
At the onset, the company needed to develop four core technologies to make the Hyperloop a reality.
First was the tube, which will have to house and maintain a low-pressure environment that is one-thousandth of an atmosphere, equivalent to the atmospheric pressure at an altitude of 48 km.
Even in such a low-pressure environment, the Hyperloop pod traveling at over 1000 km/h will still experience a similar drag as a semi-truck traveling on a highway at 96 km/h.
The second was the axial compressor which intakes air and continuously pressurizes it. This will be a challenge because an axial compressor has never been built to work in a low-pressure environment.
The third was the levitation technology. Musk’s original concept involved redirecting air from the compressor in front of the pod to air bearings beneath the pod that is ski-like paddles that levitate the capsule.
Hyperloop Technologies, on the other hand, ended up developing a magnetic levitation or maglev system which will guide and lift the pod off the track.
And fourth was the propulsion system, a linear electric motor consisting of two parts, first is the Stator, an electromagnet that lies on the track, and the second part is the linear motor that simply hangs beneath pod, running along the length of the stators on the track.

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