گجت نیوز آخرین اخبار تکنولوژی، علم و خودرو 
الون موسک اخیرا از انتشار طراحی یک سیستم حمل‌ونقل خورشیدی در آینده نزدیک خبر داده که می‌تواند طی 30 دقیقه انسانها را در فواصل 600 کیلومتری جابجا کند.موسک که موسس شرکت اسپیس‌ایکس بوده، اظهار کرد: طرح Hyperloop alpha تا 12 اوت(21 مرداد) منتشر خواهد شد.
به گفته موسک این طرح چیزی بین یک پرتابه الکترومغناطیسی، کنکورد و میز هاکی هوایی است که ضد سانحه بوده و تحت تاثیر آب‌وهوا قرار نخواهد گرفت.
مخترع این طرح که همچنین شرکت خودرو برقی سازی تسلا موتورز را بنیاد نهاده، اشاره کرد که Hyperloop یک تونل خلاء نیست که مفهومی در حمل‌ونقل ریلی پر سرعت برای کشیدن هوا به منظور جلوراندن قطار با کمترین نیرو است.
به گفته موسک، مردم برای سفر از سان‌فرانسیسکو به لس‌آنجلس که یک مسافت 600 کیلومتری است با استفاده از این طرح تنها 30 دقیقه در راه خواهند بود.موسک مدعی شده که هزینه سفر با Hyperloop بسیار کمتر از قطارهای پرسرعت شینکانسن بوده و پنجمین حالت حمل‌ونقل پس از قطار، هواپیما، خودرو و قایق خواهد بود.
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Musk to Unveil Designs for ‘Hyperloop’ High-Speed Train
Is it a train? Is it a plane? No, it’s the “Hyperloop,” a hybrid new form of transportation that is the brainchild of Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who was a co-founder of PayPal and is chairman of Tesla Motors.
On Monday, Mr. Musk announced his plan to unveil designs for this new type of train, which he hopes to build and which, he says, can travel as a puck does on an air hockey table.
“Will publish Hyperloop alpha design by Aug. 12,” Mr. Musk wrote on Twitter on Monday. “Critical feedback for improvements would be much appreciated.”
A trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles takes almost six hours in a car. By bus it’s an excruciating nine hours. Although a flight takes one hour and 15 minutes, when the drive to the airport and tarmac time are factored in, it’s a four-hour trip. Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Mr. Musk in September as saying that the Hyperloop would be able to take people to San Francisco from Los Angeles in 30 minutes. That’s a speed of almost 800 miles an hour.
Mr. Musk has described the Hyperloop as the “fifth mode of transportation” and says it is a hybrid between a train and a plane.
The proposed cost of the Hyperloop between Los Angeles and San Francisco is $6 billion. California is now working on plans to build a far slower train system between the two cities that is expected to cost $60 billion.
While responding to people on Twitter, Mr. Musk said the design he planned to release in August would not be patented. ”I really hate patents unless critical to company survival,” Mr. Musk wrote. “Will publish Hyperloop as open source.”
“What you want is something that never crashes, that’s at least twice as fast as a plane, that’s solar-powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time,” Mr. Musk told Bloomberg while describing his vision of the Hyperloop last year.