Entire Hyperloop could be destroyed in SECONDS!

so loads of folks shipping this article about how Hyperloop has begun construction it's really happening Hyperloop one is building a Hyperloop out in the desert actually no they've just started welding together the tubes they've had sitting around for years but it once again got me thinking about tubes and the vacuum like say for instance this tanker truck with this demonstration we helped provide you with a window into the dynamics of a vacuum collapse we welcome you to utilize this video in employee and stakeholder training and it got me thinking is this how the Hyperloop is going to end now there will be someone who say but the Hyperloop only runs under a partial vacuum I mean let me just put this in terms of a graphical representation here I have 255 pixel depth of color so basically 255 is white and 0 is black so here is 125 that's going to represent about a 50% vacuum 20 is going to represent about a 90% packing and 2 is going to represent a 99% back him and the Hyperloop is going to be a 99.9 percent vacuum according to the Hyperloop alpha document arguing shade of grey here between left and right is literally hundreds 4 with a valid argument to negate my debunking of the Hyperloop is vertical so yeah the Hyperloop runs under 1000 run atmosphere which is so close to a perfect vacuum that it's not even worth distinguishing for this video now firstly let me say the Elon Musk's attempted a test track was much better than this in that it was at least a kilometer long so the test track they built was about four fifths of a mile long the tube is 5,000 150 feet long seriously they couldn't even build a mile-long test track and even at that that's the second largest vacuum chamber in the world yeah and so we got the until this is like there's me the second biggest vacuum chamber in the world after the Large Hadron Collider so it's a very exciting that's only one for hundreds of the actual size of the proposed Californian Hyperloop whereas the Hyperloop one is only half that length as that's it after everything which is bloody pathetic I mean even in the one kilometer long test track you can do almost nothing 30 kilometers now 40 kilometers an hour 50 and so forth up to 67 and this released apart and the pod stopped hopefully go maybe add though 50 meters or something you are not defining two hosts competition he told the world come up with Hyperloop designs and what the best design wing indeed the winning team actually only managed to go slightly further on its own so we heard the pushes off and it's accelerating the pod 30 kilometers to that 50 kilometer the 17th Wow it's a record eighty kilometers an hour 80 90 kilometers per hour and it releases the pod ah the pod stops one of the things this competition is for is to show the world that we can do this and convince them that we should build it somewhere and get the ball rolling their top speed was about 60 miles per hour 60 miles per hour 100 or so kilometers per hour which means that you go with a full length of the track in about one minute and that's it that's the top speed of the Hyperloop competition just about 900 kilometers per hour short of what a promise in every goddamn article that speculates about the Hyperloop Hyperloop a massive solar power tube would allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes it's going to be able to reach in theory speed those 700 maybe even 800 miles an hour just to get from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes there's almost nothing else like that our aim is to connect the world like never before in history what the internet did in the sphere of communication Hyperloop will certainly do in the realm of Transportation seeing this thing hover and seeing it move it's so futuristic but it's really right around the corner you sit in a pod in our catapulted regime pressurized to at over 700 miles per hour and travel at speeds greater than 600 miles per hour with tickets costing less than the seat aboard a plane or train awesome so 80 km/h that is a fantastic speed and you guys have set the bar for the remainder of the teams yeah they only promised a thousand kilometers per hour and remarkably short transport speeds of like 45 minutes whereas in reality that's just how long it took just to get something in to the test track of the Hyperloop because this is such a large chamber and it takes a lot of power and a lot of resources for us to pump it down we want to make sure before we put the pods in here that nothing is going to happen to them under a vacuum different teams want to go to different pressure levels but if we go down to like a fairly low level of how I take about 30 minutes it takes longer than the proposed journey time from the Los Angeles to San Francisco what allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes just to get in to the Hyperloop we're waiting for Delft to do their run they put it in the suit got an hour ago then they took it out and they put it back in it's quite what some of the increase it was more like an hour and a half and they took it out and then they put it back in and now it's in and it's being pressurized which takes about 30 to 45 minutes it is 6 o'clock the ceremoniously about 4:35 so yeah they just welded together all those tubes they had sat out in the desert but it did once again get me thinking about how much energy it would actually take to pump down the Hyperloop to a vacuum now it turns out is trivial to work out the total amount of energy to get the vacuum out this is mattre V and that you would need to pump it down this is the absolute minimum the thermodynamic limit to remove all of the air from the Hyperloop it turns out is just pressure which is what atmosphere are 100,000 Pascal's times the change in volume that's it that's your energy in joules so let's take a Lux Hyperloop sorry he's micro loop the one that's 1,000 of the size of the LA to San Francisco high clip and we'll take this small version of the tube this is the smallest possible version 1.6 meters tall I couldn't even stand up in there and let's say it's for 1 kilometer long that means the volume of that tube the volume of the vacuum you have to create is about two thousand cubic meters you've got to displace about two tons of air and the minimum energy requirement to create a vacuum that size is at point 2 Giga joules of energy which is about the same energy as 50 kilograms of TNT that's half my body weight give or take of high explosive and that's it if they had a vacuum failure it would be fire here capsule down the track like a ping pong ball in a vacuum demonstration and now we're pumping it down yeah 3 2 1 whoa and basically the energy would release on the impact at the end would be about the same energy as 50 kilograms of TNT which we make me feel kind of uneasy about just seeing all these people spamming around they were really quite dangerous vacuum tube so yeah just in creating that vacuum you stored a lot of energy which is one of the reasons why when we're in labs and we're dealing with vacuums in glassware they're frequently coated in plastic such that if there is an implosion it catches all fragments of glass it hit even harder well because there's a lot of energy in a vacuum under an atmosphere and if you have a thousand kilometer long Hyperloop it'll have 1,000 times as much energy in it it's a micro loop studies it would have the same energy as 50 tons of TNT and that's using the small tube the one I couldn't even stand up in which brings us back to the new Hyperloop which they've started welding together in the desert well they're special is bloody thin to the point where when you sitting around in the desert it means cross braces in all of the tubes to stop it buckling under its own weight ah have you ever seen what happens to a Tonka truck when it's pumped out and the vacuum but the Hyperloop is gonna be made out of thick steel right ciao steel that still need interior struts to protect it from defamation take those out and this may well be what happens to your full-scale Hyperloop [Music] however while there are some very dramatic demonstrations of things and a vacuum being crushed by the atmosphere and this is basically releasing that energy that I was telling you about earlier there was rather a Mythbusters experiment that showed the tanker truck and the vacuum can be stable that's the sound of disappointment they develop these tank cars are actually pretty tough little bastards that's until I put a dent in the tanker truck [Music] and then boom [Music] now something tells me that your chances are being auto stop any end whatsoever in a 1000 kilometer long tube as small ten nothing I mean just things like wind strength or expansion strength because so far none of the tubes that they've created have dealt with the expansion issue in any way whatsoever hope just simply an earthquake hell a car crash into one of the pillars any slight dent in that wave of thin tube and you would be looking at a cascade failure it would release about the same energy as five Moab bomb [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 11 2017