Tube-based travel—fact or fiction? | Brogan BamBrogan | TEDxSacramento

Speeding through the country in a low friction tube sounds incredible, but is it a plausible mode of transportation? Find out what Brogan BamBrogan and the team at Hyperloop One are building in the desert of Nevada.
When you’re ready to move on from designing engines for Falcon 1 rockets and working on the early design of the Dragon spacecraft at SpaceX, what’s next? For Brogan BamBrogan, co-founding Hyperloop One, where he serves as CTO, and breaking barriers in developing a revolutionary, carbon-free, high-speed transportation system known as a Hyperloop is what’s next. Originally put forward by Elon Musk, Hyperloop would use low friction evacuated tubes and aluminum pods with linear induction motors that can move passengers and/or cargo from, say, Sacramento to Los Angeles at about 750 mph -- near supersonic speed -- in about 30 minutes. Hyperloop One plans to have a full-scale, full-speed hyperloop prototype operational by the end of 2016.
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