Hyperloop Transport System Elon Musk 'Think Big' Spacex Falcon 9 Space Explorer || 'Hyperloop Transport System' 'Elon Musk' 'Think Big' Spacex Falcon 9 Space Explorer. The fevered speculation about billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's mysterious 'Hyperloop' transport system is about to come to an end.
Musk, the visionary behind electric-car firm Tesla and the private spaceflight company SpaceX, has said he will unveil a Hyperloop design on Monday (Aug. 12), after teasing the world about the superfast travel technology for more than a year.
The solar-powered Hyperloop would allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes, Musk has said, meaning it must travel at speeds greater than 600 mph (966 km/h). The system would be cheap and convenient, he added, with tickets costing less than a seat aboard a plane or train and Hyperloop vehicles departing frequently from their various stations.
Though we don't know exactly how the Hyperloop will work or what it will look like, Musk has dropped some hints since first disclosing the concept in July 2012. For example, this past May he described the Hyperloop as a 'cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table.'
Using that statement as inspiration, self-described 'tinker' John Gardi drew up a design of a system that uses air to blast cars through long tubes. Gardi's concept ".