After reading this feature had that 5 second thought to write him an email saying I’ll work for you for free just feed me.<\/p>\n
On the assumption that people will be living on earth for some time, Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop. He won\u2019t share specifics but says it\u2019s some sort of tube capable of taking someone from downtown San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30\u00a0minutes. He calls it a \u201cfifth mode of transportation\u201d\u2014the previous four being train, plane, automobile, and boat. \u201cWhat you want is something that never crashes, that\u2019s at least twice as fast as a plane, that\u2019s solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time,\u201d Musk says. His friends claim he\u2019s had a Hyperloop technological breakthrough over the summer. \u201cI\u2019d like to talk to the governor and president about it,\u201d Musk continues. \u201cBecause the $60\u00a0billion bullet train they\u2019re proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They\u2019re going for records in all the wrong ways.\u201d The cost of the SF-LA Hyperloop would be in the $6\u00a0billion range, he says.Musk is also planning to develop a new kind of airplane: \u201cBoeing just took $20\u00a0billion and 10\u00a0years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10\u00a0percent. That\u2019s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.\u201dAfter a few hours with Musk, hypersonic tubes and jets that take off like rockets start to seem imminent. But interplanetary travel? Really? Musk says he\u2019s on target
\nvia Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist – Businessweek<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After reading this feature had that 5 second thought to write him an email saying I’ll work for you for free just feed me. On the assumption that people will be living on earth for some time, Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop. He won\u2019t share specifics but says it\u2019s … <\/p>\n