S N A P C H A T DelftH yperLoop Hamilton to Auckland in 5 mins anyone? A team of student’s from TU Delft took out the overall prize for best designed Hyperloop capsule at a competition organised by Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX. The Hyperloop is a super-fast means of transport that consists a capsule traveling through a vacuum tube that offers very little resistance to, safely and efficiently, eventually travel at well over 1,000kmph. Imagine travelling from Amsterdam to Paris in under 30 minutes. The Delft design is very light through the use of strong carbon fibre. At about 4.5 metres long and 1 metre in height it weighs only 149 kilograms. The design uses permanent magnets to allow the vehicle to hover about two centimetres above the track, as it moves over a conductive plate. In a full-scale, commercial system, the capsule would accelerate out of the station using a linear electric motor, with the stator windings inside the track. Then because there is not much air inside the tube, it would just float along at very high speed, with only an extra boost needed on the way to stay at that speed. Energy would be recovered using regenerative braking making it a very energy-efficient system. Solar panels on top of the tubes themselves could generate additional energy to power the capsules.
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