NEW Train Technology that helps to drown out all of the bad news in our country

I love the subject of transportation.  I've always been particularly fascinated with airlines, but my curiosity has included trains and ocean liners.

In the U.S., we do not depend on rail travel as the rest of the developed (and non) countries around the world.  In fact, the fascist trump proposed a budget proposal that eliminates Amtrak's longer routes.  So much for his discussion while a candidate to build and improve the U.S. infrastructure.

Since a kid, I have lamented that railroad was rather an obsolete and rare form of travel in this declining country.

On a more positive note, there was an article in today's Daily Mail Online (3/21/17) that was very exciting developments in both the US are happening today regarding the advancement and deployment of train travel.  Shame on our government.  It looks like the US government, in the near future, will no longer be the leading driver of developing infrastructure and technology in any way.  If this is true, then the US is no longer the greatest country.

This article was an update on the previously announcement that a new high-speed product which is being developed by the maverick, Elon Musk.  The fast train is expected to travel at the speed of 760 miles per hour.  This article talks about the development of the first passenger capsule pod of the "Hyperloop" system, as it has been named.  The first test prototype of the pod is currently being built.  In addition, there is a "1.8 mile (3 km) full-scale and full speed enclosed prototype is taking shape in the desert in North Las Vegas in Nevada – and the company is expected to perform a public trial in the first half of 2017."

This technology miracle of train traveling train Pod vehicles "will carry a total of 164,000 passengers daily, departing every 40 seconds."  There are a number of routes that have been proposed for implementation of the Hyperloop, including LA-Las Vegas, SFO-Las Vegas, and in the middle east to Dubai, and other routes.

It is such a tragedy that our current country doesn't appear to care about technology and infrastructure development.  These are the investments that made us a great country through the last century.  In my opinion, this is creating a decline of America as a world power.  I don't know if I will live to see this amazing technology come to fruition.   I do know that the current US administration and legislation will do nothing to encourage technology.

Horray for Elon Musk and the other mavericks out there that are moving the world forward.  Shame on our government.



Reference
MacDonald, C. (2017). Hyperloop gets real: Work begins on first passenger pods for Elon Musk's futuristic transport system Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4336584/Hyperloop-firm-begins-building-passenger-pod.html#ixzz4c1iia26a Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4336584/Hyperloop-firm-begins-building-passenger-pod.html 

Company ET3 proposes supersonic train which would travel from NYC to LA in 45 minutes

I love this.  Somehow I think that we as a nation have devolved to such a point that we could never see this great idea to fruition.  But maybe United Arab Emirates or China will.   This technology advances our world in such a remarkable way.  We had a SST aircraft and it flew for many years but nothing was developed to replace it and it was retired a few years ago.

This proposal seems logical to the lay mind.  I've worked in businesses that utilized and I've been a customer of banks who used the pneumatic tube systems from the past.  We still haven't figured out how to take a human or living being and translate it into something digital that can be translated electronically.   Until that can be done, this seems like a revolutionary design.  Send we humans in a little tube at very high speeds, just as we did with the pneumatic systems of the not so distant past.  

From wired.com:

[ET3] wants to revolutionize transportation. Again. The serial entrepreneur envisions a future where mag-lev trains in enormous pneumatic tubes whisk us from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes. Need to be in Beijing tomorrow? No problem. It’s a two-hour ride away  

Daily Mail

As crazy as it sounds, Musk is merely updating an idea that’s been around since the early 1900s, and at least one company is working on a functional prototype. But according to Wired sources, his involvement won’t be nearly as hands-on as Musk’s other endeavors at Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

The engineering behind the Hyperloop is similar to the old-school pneumatic tube systems used by banks to suck your deposit to the teller at the drive-through. But naturally, it’s more complicated than that.

A massive vacuum tube — mounted either above ground or even under water — would be combined with a magnetic levitation system used on conventional bullet trains. That means no friction, no wind resistance, no chance of collisions, and insanely high speeds:  http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/ford-transit-supervan/

The proposed train would travel at 400 mph transcontinentally and 4,000 mph internationally.  Based upon those speeds, ET3 suggests that you could travel between NY-LA in 45 minutes and ultimately New York to Bejing in two-hours.

Elon Musk, the owner of ET3, one of the companies exploring this technology, described this train thusly:  "a cross between a Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table.

It is interesting.  This technology is based upon proposals in early 20th century for "vactrains" which never reached fruition.  

It also provides a very cost efficient alternative to the best technology we have today.   "The tech entrepreneur claims that his hyperloop super train could be three to four times faster than a Japanese bullet train." (1)

These kind of ideas are so rare in this day age.  We seem to be stuck in 1950 in this country, despite some advances.  But this kind of hyper-liberal thinking is what created the technologically-advanced world that we live in today.   Alas, we haven't advance spiritually.

But this blog is really about celebration.  This is an exciting concept using old technology which was quite successful and moved our civilization forward (if not spiritually).  Sure, we could wait for physicists to finally discover how to break down living beings to the atomic level and then transport them digitally, as we do with documents, photos, etc. 

I love this concept.   Here's more photos and be sure and check out the video below:

Here's more photos

(1)  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2369993/How-Elon-Musk-s-Hyperloop-actually-work-Experts-guess-plans-LA-San-Francisco-30-minutes-come-fruition.html#ixzz2ZSsaKKJO 

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(2)  http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/16/tech/innovation/elon-musk-tube-transport
(3)  http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/elon-musks-new-idea-crazy-fast-trains 
(4)  http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/elon-musk-hyperloop/