The answer to the Crimean bridge: Ukraine pulled on mega-projects

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Amazing news come from Square. The country, which is heavily in debt and lives from the tranche of the International Monetary Fund to the next tranche, wants to enter a high-tech project called Hyperloop.





Hyperloop is an ambitious idea of ​​the American businessman Ilon Mask, which is a system of sealed steel pipes of large diameter, inside which passenger and cargo capsules can move with great speed. Potentially, such super-fast trains will be able to accelerate to 1200 kilometers per hour. Developers consider Hyperloop a new mode of transport, intermediate between the plane and the train.

Currently, several competing companies are working on such a system in parallel. Technologies vacuum trains are still “raw” and require many years of testing and refinement in order to ensure safety. In France, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has begun the construction of a test pipeline, the length of which can be up to a kilometer for test launches. The test capsule is being prepared by a partner company from Spain.

The Ukrainian government has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies in the development of high-speed vacuum train technologies. Kiev hopes in the next five years to become a transit of goods using Hyperloop infrastructure from China to the EU countries. True, it raises questions, for what means will such a large-scale project be financed by Nezalezhnaya? And aren't European partners planning to use Ukraine as a testing ground for breaking in raw technology?
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  1. Victor March 47
    Victor March 47
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    21 June 2018 15: 35
    A system with vacuum tubes in which sealed capsules with passengers move is an order of magnitude more dangerous devices than airplanes. Passengers risk being torn apart by the caisson effect when depressurizing the capsule. The vacuum in the pipe is much higher than the atmospheric pressure at an altitude of 12 km, where military aircraft fly, not to mention passenger ones, at a lower altitude. When the pipe is depressurized, air suddenly appears in it, which becomes like a concrete wall when the capsule moves there at a supersonic speed. Further. In the case of a more favorable outcome, when the passengers are still alive. they will need urgent assistance. The question is how to quickly find the place of the accident, how to quickly remove the vacuum, how to quickly open the pipe, and the capsule to provide first aid to the victims?
    And finally, the technical features. The speed of movement is many times higher than the usual speed of passenger trains. The straightness of the pipe and rail laying inside should include a deviation of a very small amount both vertically and horizontally. Because riding in curved sections at such speeds will crush with overload even very trained ones. It follows that the volume of excavation work on laying the pipe with the goal of minimal deviations from straightness will be colossal.
    1. Georgievic
      Georgievic
      +1
      4 August 2018 11: 03
      This is the right conclusion! Stupidity is complete and all for the sake of speed. But gunboats have a topic for further robbery of Ukraine. Who lives in Ukraine in a circus does not laugh!