Tag: #HYPERLOOP

Indian Railways network with IIT Madras to develop a hyperloop technology

Hyperloop is a high-speed transportation system(even faster than the bullet trains), having a low operating cost.

IIT Madras Avishkar Hyperloop Team(Image Source- Twitter)

The Indian Railways has collaborated with IIT Madras to develop a hyperloop technology based transport system and extended a financial support of Rs. 8.34 crores to IIT Madras for this project.

The Hyperloop project was also mentioned in the Union Budget 2022-2023. According to that, the railways was exploring possibilities of acquiring hyperloop technology for a demonstrative project to showcase its capabilities in the rail sector.

Union Minister of Railways Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw approved a financial assistance of Rs. 8.34 crores to IIT Madras for the development on hyperloop technology during his visit on Thursday.

A recent tweet on the official twitter handle of Avishkar Hyperloop

The above tweet was posted on the official twitter handle of Avishkar Hyperloop team, declaring Ashwini Vaishnaw sir as their 72nd member.

Ashwini Vaishnaw sir watching the demonstration on Hyperloop pod model

The minister saw the demonstration on the Hyperloop pod model at the New Academy Complex. Also, he also tested 5G at the Research Park.

His tweet regarding testing of 5G at the IIT-M Campus

The Hyperloop pod is a futuristic high-speed long distance public transport. The design aims at a speed of 1200 km/hr. The institution is also developing a 500m long tube, inside which the hyperloop pod will travel. Below is a visual demonstration of the Hyperloop Pod.

Startup Story of Elon Musk

Elon Musk is the result of a combination of talent and dedication. He always gives new discoveries to this world by thinking about how to go from one success to another without thinking about his achievements. Through his Solar City company, he has made solar power available to the public at an affordable price and also provided an opportunity to drive an electric car through Tesla Motors. Not only this, he has also facilitated space travel through his company SpaceX. 


The journey of success we are going to see today is the journey of Elon Musk, the most talented entrepreneur in this world and the hard working man who aims to make all the people of this world live well.

The Birth and Adolescence of Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. Born into a struggling family, his childhood was very difficult. Elon learned computer programming at an early age, which allowed him to sell his first program when he was 12 years old. He sold a space game called Blaster for $ 500. He briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada aged 17 to attend Queen’s University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received bachelor’s degrees in economics and physics. After graduation, Musk traveled to Stanford University to study for his PhD. But he barely started the program before leaving it. 



He deferred his admission after only two days in California, deciding to test his luck in the internet boom that was just getting underway. Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal, started a software company called Zip2 in 1995 using $ 28,000 from their father. Musk became a U.S citizen in 2002. As the website began to grow more detailed and faster, newspaper makers began to explore how it could be used. Musk’s company has signed contracts with local newspaper makers such as The New York Times and Chicago Tribune to start producing online city guides online. But Zip 2 started to get a lot of obstacles. Board was barred from becoming Musk’s CEO. The Board sold the company to CompaQ for $307 million + $34 million in stock options in 1999. Elon received 7%, or $ 22 million. 




Elon Musk started an online banking company called X.com as a co-founder, spending $ 10 million from the sale of Zip2. The next year the dot com bubble was fully formed and all the other tech companies backed out and bought another online banking company, X.com Confinity, and its money transfer services, PayPal. X.com decided to focus on this and renamed the company PayPal. It has grown from thousands of users to over 1 million users in just a few years and is loved by all as an easy online payment system.

The Board issue, however, was another issue for Elon Musk. He was fired as CEO due to technical issues surrounding the future of management. Again following this issue the company came to the point of being sold. This time the issue for eBay. At that time, a quarter of the transaction on eBay was completed by PayPal. In 2002, the stock traded for $ 1.5 billion, making it a huge sale compared to Internet company standards. Elon received $ 165 million for his 11.7% stake in PayPal. 




It was during this time that Musk began to think about space travel and thought of a miniature experimental greenhouse as Mars Land. Elon decided to start a company when it came to the return flight. He wanted to build a cheap rocket using Vertical Integration and Modular Approach of Software Integration. All of this led to the launch of SpaceX in 2002. This was Musk’s vision of a great vision. He funded the project with $ 100 million from his own network. But the company quickly began to make a profit. NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX to develop the Falcon 9 launch vehicle in 2006 and then raised $ 1.6 billion in 2008. He was, however, bent on meeting a more important need than headlines and profit. 



Tesla Motors is a brand that has made Musk world famous for its similar public idealism. Elon Musk came in as a leading investor in an early management and invested $ 7.5 million. In addition to his reputation, he took an active role in the company and instigated the use of carbon fiber bodies from Tesla Roadster as design in-charge. He subsequently invested further and became CEO of Tesla Motors in 2008. The company’s first car, the Tesla Roadster, has sold 2,500 vehicles in 31 countries. 




Elon Musk came up with the idea for Solar City while thinking about the production side of Energy Equation. In 2006 he and his cousins ​​Lyndon and Peter Rive all co-founded. The company provided the finance, design and installation for the solar panel. They also collaborated with Tesla Motors to construct electric car charging stations. In 2014, Solar City employed 6,000 people. Elon Musk promised to build a Solar City in Buffalo City, New York. The company is now the second largest provider of solar power in the US. Musk is its Largest Share Holder. Elon Musk is still investing in future generations.




In 2013, he proposed a concept called Hyper Loop. Developed a concept for a train to transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes. He calls it the Hyperloop, and he estimates it would cost $ 6 billion to build.

No one has been able to stop Elon from successfully launching the 4th launch of SpaceX. Failures and losses became a major lesson for his future goals. Elon continues to travel towards his goals.

IIT-MADRAS, AVISHKAR HYPERLOOP TEAM QUALIFIES FOR EUROPEAN HYPERLOOP WEEK

A group of students with team named “AVISHKAR” from IIT Madras have been working tremendously towards the technology behind the future of transportation, HYPERLOOP. The team comprises of forty students from various department of IIT, madras. They have been working on this new prototype hyperloop project since last November.

BUT, WHAT IS HYPERLOOP?

Basically, hyperloop is a high speed mass transportation system. A hyperloop is a super speed ground-level transportation system in which people could travel in a hovering pod inside a vacuum tube at speeds as high as 760 mph (1220 km/h).

While talking about the product, Neel said, “Hyperloop is a proposed mode of transportation in which many pods will be traveling inside a vacuum tube, capable of attaining high speeds due to no air friction and reduced air drag.” It IS the fifth and most efficient mode of transportation that the world is moving towards, he added. Further he said, “Because Hyperloop is sustainable, it works on electrical energy, we can install Solar panels on top of the tube, which could store energy and the same energy could be used to propel the hyperloop. This is way more sustainable .”

HOW DOES A HYPERLOOP WORK?

It has three major components: a tube, pod, and terminal. The tube is a large low pressure system that is sealed and tube can be constructed either above or below the ground. A pod is a coach that runs inside this controlled system and this pod employs magnetic or aerodynamic levitation along with electromagnetic or aerodynamic propulsion to glide along a fixed guideway. The terminals are used for arrivals and departures. Hyperloop is based on simple science called Magnetic levitation. But one thing that needs to be noted is, that it requires complex machinery and sensors to make a Pod travel at nearly 1000 km/h inside a vacuum tube. However the team has cracked that and named their pod “GARV”, which translates to “PRIDE”. It consists of Carbon Fiber shell, packed with advanced machinery and sensors.

STATEMENT:

Pranit, who is Head of Braking Module, said that Garv is their second Pod which is more efficient and lighter than the one they designed for SpaceX. “This time we are introducing several technologies like linear induction motor to achieve ‘contactless propulsion’ and ‘contactless braking. The motor produces a magnetic field which makes the Pod move forward and the contactless Braking has magnets which come closer to the rail, creating a Braking force and decelerating the Pod,” Pranit added.

Parth, a member of the Controls team, said, “Our team started in November. Everything we did online such as brainstorming sessions and discussions about the simulations. Once we were confident, we came back to the institute and started working on the Pod.” He said, “We are participating in European Hyperloop Week which will be conducted on 19th – 25th July and Valencia, Spain. Because of the pandemic, we are forced to compete virtually, but that is not a setback for us.”

EUROPEAN HYPERLOOP WEEK SELECTION:

With all their hard work, they have now crossed the hurdle and are qualified for the European Hyperloop Week that is to be held in Valencia, Spain from July 19 to 25. The team will participate virtually due to pandemic restrictions. With upgraded prototype, the team estimates the travel time between Chennai and Bangalore to be a mere 30 minutes ride instead of a six hours journey. They are also working on the study of energy, costs, demands and other aspects of hyperloop so as to access the economic feasibility of hyperloop in India.