Science fiction has always the ability to anticipate times, and so the books are full of flights of fancy on our future life, which then regularly materialize in our reality. This is not some kind of premonition or magic, but our ability to cultivate ideas to solve the problems of daily life. Something that always fascinated our work here at Vuototecnica.
In this sense the mind of the scientist or of the engineer is not so far from that of a writer, and from these minds was born Hyperloop vactrain, a new means of transport with a very minimal impact to the environment, a magnetic levitation train which travels in a vacuum tunnel.
The system uses the electric propulsion and vacuum in order to accelerate a passenger car or a cargo through a tube in a low pressure environment.
The fully autonomous vehicle levitates slightly above the runway and slip at higher speeds then the aircraft, over long distances. So you eliminate direct emissions, noise, delay, concerns of a possible pilot error.
Big, a Danish company, will present next month in Dubai its Hyperloop One, which can do the long journey of 150 kilometers, the distance between two large cities in the UAE with a few minutes of travel time.
This project finally brings to light the pioneering vision on hyperspeed transport based on vacuum. The idea implies the construction of lines within the tunnel where they would create a vacuum permanent. The vactrains could go up to 6000-8000 km/h (Mach 5-6).
