Traveling in capsules propelled in vacuum tubes, at more than 1000 km/h.
This is to shorten the transport time between urban centers.
For example, make a Los Angeles-San Francisco in 30 minutes, compared to 1 hour 25 minutes by plane and 9 hours 30 minutes by train;
a Paris-Madrid in 60 minutes, compared to 2 h 5 min by plane and 10 hours by train, or an Abu Dhabi-Dubai in 15 minutes, compared to 40 minutes by plane and 3 hours by car.
By emitting zero CO2 emissions.
This is the promise of the Hyperloop, an ultra-fast futuristic train, an idea popularized by Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX and Tesla.
The concept is old.
We owe it to the French engineer Émile Bachelet, who presented, in 1914, within the framework of the Universal Exhibition in London, a prototype of a train with magnetic levitation, that is to say levitating, without contact between the wheels and infrastructure, above a track fitted with magnets.
It reached 480 km/h.
But this technology, called MagLev, has only had…
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