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NEW 'Vibranium' hyperloop capsule -BUSTED (Patreon)

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2018-10-16 12:46:59
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 The hyperloop companies between them have the best part of a billion dollars of funding. A BILLION dollars. That’s more than the cost of sending the New Horizons probe to Pluto! They promise a magical free transport system that’s 10x safer than airtravel, powered by sunlight and magnets, but whenever you look at any of their claims in detail, its all PR snake oil. In this case they unveiled a full scale hyperloop test capsule made out of a new material called vibranium. However when you start looking at the details, ‘vibranium’ is nothing more than carbon fiber composite, and the full scale hyperloop test capsule just an empty oversized coke can with no interior, no life support, and no engines.

However if you do an online search for this, you will find that almost without exception, everyone just runs with the clickbait about ‘new 750mph hyperloop passenger capsule revealed’. I have a very nice ‘free energy machine’ for these morons to invest in!

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NEW 'Vibranium' hyperloop capsule -BUSTED

Yup, another hyperloop company is building a prototype barely bigger than the actual pod. But the thing thats stunning here is the media circus that went with the big pod reveal. In reality it was just a large carbon fiber can. It had no interior and no workings. However it was stunning how the manufacture of a tube led so many uncritical articles gushing over how this empty tube was soon to be rushing around at 700mph, in a tube just about 10 times longer than the capsule.... crazy! if you want to support this channel directly: https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

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Anonymous

Thanks for the updates, Thunderf00t! These anti-science bastards imagine a better world for themselves, at the expense of the truth. I will obviously do whatever I can to save people, including putting you on my to-do list.

Tony Hammitt
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Good article, if a little brief. Powering the system wasn't really dealt with though, and I think that's a major hurdle. It would take quite a lot of power to pump the system down and maintain it at 100Pa, since it takes more and more power to get to lower pressures. Then you have to power the linear inductor, and it seems to me that it would be a challenge to keep up with the capsule and give it enough of a push the faster it goes. Near its speed limit, it'd only be over each meter of inductor for 3 milliseconds. Electromagnets might be able to switch hundreds of amps that fast, someday