Hyperloop to Australia? Elon Musk Explains Why It's a BAD IDEA and Offers a Better Solution!
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- When will a hyperloop potentially be ready, and can we get to Australia? I would not recommend it for going to Australia, because Australia is really far! Where something like the hyperloop would work best is for distances that are maybe 500 miles, probably not more than 1000. And that's because if you compare to, say, alternative being supersonic air transport, in order to go really fast with a plane you have to climb pretty high because the atmosphere just looks like molasses when you're going fast. So, for distances, certainly under 500 miles, you spend all your time just ascending and descending. And you don't really get an opportunity to spend your time at cruise. However, once you get to long distances then the cost of the tube starts to become a big factor. And so, then I'd say it's probably the right move to go to supersonic transport because you're spending a large percentage of your time at cruise. And you could probably get there faster with a supersonic aircraft.
Someone once stole Elons water. Never again
🤣🤣🤣 worded very well! 👍
He was born in Africa. C’mon, don’t be bullies.
Not even once 😂
@@colinstate Mine also was a joke. Seems I have found yours, have you lost it?
@@colinstate ya he just made another joke calm down
I wonder if his glass is going to break from that grip.
Is there something wrong with his left hand that he has to hold something like that
@@Radionut is there something wrong with your head that makes you care about this shit
I think he thinks it’s a mic he is holding
He’d invent a better glass right after
He is a robot! Glass grip is just a fainth so he could look more human but coding was poor for this interview.
I wish someday you can find someone who protects you like Elon protects his glass of water.
😅😅
" If you wish to be a success in the world. Promise everything, deliver nothing." N. Bonaparte
or promise cheaper flights to orbit and compelling EVs and deliver.
Hey that’s from the Tory playbook
The optimal distance for hyperloop is zero.
Any distance above that, there is a cheaper, more efficient alternative.
And its called a train . OMG the Future .
@@xythiera7255 „Let’s take a train, an efficient, reasonably fast, reasonably cost effective system. Then add a vacuum tube that is 500 miles long. Easy, right?“
More efficient is what you will not find. Cheaper of course we can all walk. But a more efficient alternative to a frictionless tube with 0 stops and 0 turns it doesn’t exist in theory yet.
@@CallMeBlazer But the Hyperloop is nothing of that. Sure, it might be more efficient to move inside the tube. But you have to create and maintain a giant vacuum tube, and it still won’t be frictionless.
Typical high speed rail can be built for 2 million USD per mile. The Hyperloop is supposed to cost 100 million USD per mile. But it isn’t even two times as fast.
@@CallMeBlazer Vaccum is not efficient. Sure, if you only look at energy after the vacuum is made and before it gets broken, it might look cool. But if you look at the total picture, there are no distances where no alternative exists and uses far less energy.
Trains. I believe the word he is looking trains. Fast trains.
Have you seen the Vegas loop? It's literally a highway under ground, long ass death trap
@@Batlafication yeah. It is a death trap. And it's a stupid concept. He could have put an underground tram and actually been able to transport lots of people. And it's safer
@@danspagnolo6319 Yeah, i don't know why he's so against trains, other than he's not making money on trains ofc
@@danspagnolo6319 may I ask who you refer to as "He"?
The Hyperloop is concepted for Bullet Trains. So he (Elon Musk) is talking of Trains.
@@Sircedan Elon musk hates the word trains. Yes the hyperloop idea is a train, but it's also a death trap. We would be much better going with high speed rail systems
He's holding on to that glass of water like it's all his wealth 😂
I don't want a tube straight to my country it feels special that we're so hard to reach
Same logic with Alcatraz lol
@@syko2695 The British Government likes the way you think.
@@Firstname137 Makes sense, I'm British 😅
Oh! That's a glass of water.First I thought it was his mic but then realised 😂
Now watch him develop a Concorde and present it as a new idea ...
Next year, there will be a huge announcement.
„Tesla developed new mode of transport. Putting their cars on round disks surrounded by metal and rubber, called a „wheel“, they managed to make the ride of the vehicles more comfortable than ever“.
@@mdsign001 Now that you've mentioned the Concorde, . . It was ultimately discontinued for lack of commercial applications needed to sustain its production and operation. . . WHY? Because the US government prohibited its use to cross the continental US territory on made-up "scientific evidence" that supersonic flights across the US would destroy the ozone. Boeing didn't have was ANYTHING LIKE the Concorde to offer. The Champion of free trade and fair dealings has been hypocritical from the get-go. Nowadays, it's been fomenting discord between China and Taiwan (which Elon Musk has characterized as "conjoined economies") to prevent China's industries from benefitting from being supplied by TSMC.
Moment of silence for all of those who are still waiting for the hyperloop 😞
Those retarss
Times never change, it used to be the monorail, now the even worse Hyperloop
@@captaintai4013 it’s easy to design things, hard to implement
It is gonna be construed soon in Saudi Arabia for about 600 km in length.
@@alialdosari6666 it is said for the past 5 years
And still does not answer when a Hyperloop will be ready…
Fax he knows nothing about hyper loop
@@tanmayjakhotia9945 says it a guy on youtube, uh?
He literally answered it, the guy asked when it will come to Australia, Elon said it's not a good idea and would be too costly so there's your answer, it won't come to Australia unless they run it at a massive loss like the Chinese trains that travel at insane speeds but lose 100 million dollars a year. And he doesn't build hyperloops so he is not at liberty to say when someone else's product will come out, it's like me asking you when the second hadron collider will be made
Never and No
@@itjustworks7386 what is it with people overusing and misusing "literally" all the time??
Anyway, no he didnt answer it. That wasnt fhe question. The question was "when will the Hyperloop potentially be ready?" And the follow-up question was "and can we get to Australia?"
He didnt answer the first (and main) question.
Is that cup his 🎙 microphone? Lol
Skinny skinny skinny mic. That thing looks like a hair follicle
It’s really easy, bring back the Concorde aircraft
Yeah the ones that don’t crash at least
@@ryanshapiro8259 bruh, it crashed less than the 737-8 max and that’s not to mention the amount of money that was put into grounding and then changing the software and training of the pilots that flew the 737-8
@@ryanshapiro8259 also, in flight 4590 it wasn’t even the Concorde’s fault but a loose price of sharp metal on the runway from a previous aircraft, know your shit
@@ryanshapiro8259 Over 50,000 flights and one crash.
@@JM-st1le still not great tho isn’t it?
The hyperloop is never going to be a thing. It's literally a pipe dream.
No it's just not very possible to build for the public at the moment. It can be built underground with high maintenance costs. The only way it would offset the cost is if you are betting people you'll get somewhere faster. The whole time. I mean you'd have to fool the same people over and over and move on to the next or you're spending more than you put in it.
Funny idiom but this dude said he'd go to Mars and it's literally trying to go to Mars
@@teerilla Exactly. „Trying“. Not actually doing it. Look at Elon‘s track report, he‘s failed so many times
@@tsfbaf303 you're such a hater, it's actually pretty funny. Dude has had haters from day 1 though and it hasn't stopped him so, keep on being a keyboard warrior while Elon is launching rockets into the stratosphere
@@tsfbaf303 lmfao "he hasn't been to Mars yet!"
Uhh.. who has? Funny how you can have such a strict timeline for something that's *never been done*
Don’t believe the hype of the Hyperloop. If it ever even comes close to being real, it’s actually going to be maglev trains in tubes. But I have a feeling that, not building the tubes would be cheaper and you will have maglev trains.
Is there really even any hype anymore? How many years has it been and people called it out on day 1. From the original plans to where we are now with it is depressing.
But he already said also he plans to use wheels, no longer floating in any way.
@@killacam876 Now just remove the tubes. Why increase air pressure unnecessarily?
I like how he says that a hyperloop to Australia would be a bad idea due to the cost and not the fact that it would be ripped to shreds due to tectonic plate shifting as well as it would take over 1000 years to dig
He avoided answering the first question, "When will it be ready?"
Because no one has that answer otherwise it will have been done or need no asking.
Because he is not building it. He opened the plans for someone else to like Richard Branson
1000 miles, he could make 1 from NY to Florida. U know how awesome it would be to live long enough to see the entire country connected with this.
😂 Never gonna happen
It would suck ass lol
if you think 500 miles, a 500 mile diameter hyperloop circuit that could have multiple cars and transport many people could fit in the bottom of texas, not really fill all of texas or anything but cover like a large portion
Except the hyperloop is impossible on a large scale for many reasons …. Just wait… it won’t happen
The thing with Musks ideas is that they don’t get disproven. They just don’t happen, which isn’t enough to actually convince his fanboys.
He just said it wasn't for large scale?
@@stevedeakins416 except he means 600miles by large scale I mean 60 by large scales
I wouldn't say impossible, just financially stupid, the whole Hyperloop is a financially stupid idea, it's technically possible, but not worth it if we can go 600 kmph with fast trains on infrastructure that's already there, also no need to maintain a near vacuum
@@captaintai4013 it’s possible on paper. But I don’t believe it’s possible with current technology. We don’t have anywhere near enough reliable ways to pump such large volumes out consistently, prevent leaks at complicated seals and reliably maintain and service vast amounts of track that fundamentally break catastrophically with small issues
A response that was not expected
Oh the hyperloop that so far is vapor ware and extremely unreliable?
Yes
As are many inventions in early stages..
@@joshuafitzner307 nah at this point the hyperloop is just a dumb idea when properly worked out.
It's like one of those ideas you have when you're high and it just doesn't stack up at scale.
It's more just the 'Hype'loop.
@@joshuafitzner307 no other ideas are practical. Even though hyperloop is possible on paper it's so inefficient for transport. As it has very very high build cost and very high maintenance cost as compared to cheaper modes of transport.
@@joshuafitzner307 concepts similar to the hyper loop were proposed in the early 20th century. It's not a new idea. And the reason it never took off it's because it's so wildly impractical. California's high speed train to nowhere has more usefulness than Musk's hyperloop.
Theoretically if you were to put multiple loads on that then we might actually change that narrative because if you could get trains going back and forth that are magnetically bound in an airtight cylinder well let's just say you could spend it at much more faster speeds for much more consistency
Well you could do 500miles then another 500 then another 500 right?
I can so relate to his thought process in this clip.
what are you relating to?
Thanks for answering the part when the hyperloop is Ready.
Ahh yes. Sonic booms as a common occurrence. Hope you don't live along the route. This man is a genius 👏
Are you saying you hope people don't live on the ocean? I live between the largest air force base in the world and a massive Navy base and rarely hear sonic booms and even then it just sounds like distant thunder.
Dude is extremely smart and can make anyone understand..Great teacher
Hahahahhahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahhahhahahhahahahahahahahaha
Dude just gets better an better stretching our imagination to do more!! Wow!! Never did I ever think those little tubes I worked w/ at a bank would one day be transport for humans.. 🙂Right up there w/watching Shatner in the 60s being beamed up w/ a flip phone I owned decades later in '92
My bff in ‘84 used to dream we could use those bank tubes to send our paper notes back n forth to our houses. Text messaging never happened tho 😂! Doh my Mom “go into computers”…me: nah.
We had supersonic air transport but people complained about the sonics booms.
Only brilliant people hold their water like that
Surely he means air travel, not specifically supersonic flight. Supersonic commercial flight was tried but wasn't commercially viable.
This time what went on in Vegas will not stay in Vegas!!
I met both Britney Spears and Elon Musk in 2000 at Bellagio. Britney just stared at me as she was singing on stage and I was standing in an archway above and nearby. I'm not sure if I was supposed to be standing up there by myself but I did have her undivided attention. A few days later Elon came up to me and started asking me questions about what I was doing there, in Las Vegas and Hawaii during that time. If I would I be fine answering a few questions. And if I was a gambling man? I stated, "I was on vacation and I only like to bet on things that are worth betting on!" I had earned these trips by qualifying reward points at my work. He asked, "What kind of work is it that you do?" I said, "Commercial energy saving promotions but I had been schooled in Automotive Marketing Business Administration and worked in that field for several years as well." He asked me, "If I had millions of dollars to spend what would be the most innovative businesses that could help humanity?" We talked about electric cars, we talked about solar energy and so many other subjects for over an hour. Even commercial space exploration for the consideration of colonization. That way all of humanity's eggs are not in one basket in case of another world war, asteroid strike, major climate change, etc. These we're very expensive and ambitious businesses to become successful at. Therefore we had to talk about ways of keeping a low overhead in advertising, distribution and the manufacturing. He said, "They were all very good ideas and that they should be done!" He said he had already made hundreds of millions off of a couple internet companies he started. "One of them was PayPal," he stated. Not that I had really done a lot of online banking or e-transfers at that time I didn't think much of it, until I noticed online about a year later that I could buy something off the computer with my PayPal card! Unfortunately I had just received a promotion as regional manager with the company I was working with. This made me let Elon know that I had to wait for a few years before I could assist further. I keep on sending out messages, hoping that he will get one and reply back. I will probably have to keep on trying, he gets more messages in a day then I would in five years! It is very inspiring to me to have a conversation with someone and they dedicate the next 20 years to making our conversation reality! We also talked about becoming your own best supplier and starting businesses that help your existing business. A type of slingshot effect that he has incorporated very well. It is so ambitious and amazing that he was willing to put pretty much all of his money where his mouth is and just make it happen with a consistent dedication. Congratulations Elon and I am looking forward to working with you again, one day in the near future! I still come up with innovative business ideas on a daily basis. Of course Britney I always wish her well and would enjoy meeting her again as well. Shoot for the Moon then Mars and then we will end up amongst the Stars! If you would like to learn more of these topics let me know. People with integrity expect to be believed otherwise they let time prove them right!
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What about eart shifting around? That won't break tunnels? I mean you see cracks on the road
Spain to ibiza would be amazing
The interviewer: What the hell is he saying? I failed my high school science subjects.
He's talking bs
Just ten years later the maximum hyperloop length is zero miles.
It's just going to be like a maglev train, but in a tube. You can't really have that tube go full vacuum cuz the air outside is just gonna crush it~
So, why not just create a faster maglev? It works, it's safe, it's fast, and you don't have to worry about the crushing pressure~
You could make the tube full vacuum there are large vacuum chambers that exist however the price of doing something like the hyper loop and actually making it go full vacuum would be retarded expensive
not to mention any movements by tectonic plates etc.
The way he's holding that glass..lol
I go for the long shot, his dad probably kicked his ass when he broke a glass
Elon always answers genuinely patiently and explains in details. I love the way he respects the interviewer the question and the way he explains .
Except that he didnt answer the question.....
@@mrnick1370 dead 💀
Except that he spills utter bullshit. There is no „optimal length“ for something that is impossible, too expensive, and has no real use.
@@nanolog522 and he is a billionaire with that bs.And I rest my case🙂
Well I still like him with all that bs . He is a billionaire and we are not. So that bs is worth listening to.
I concur!!!
That and tectonic plates ate fucking up gps in Australia. Since it keeps moving away. Not something you want on a fixed object you need a vacuum to operate. And failure usually means death..
We should focus on cargo hyperloop so we can ameliorate the supply chain
I always agree with his logic. And I think it's very basic but many people do not understand
Maybe Los Angeles to New York
Yea but what’s a safer mode of transportation, flying or a tube ? I’d rather tube it
When we have this little problem called tectonic plates that move between continents
What frequency are we using on this to open the doors
Brilliant 🙂
It will be never ready.
A long skinny tunnel like that would completely collapse under any movement at all from a tectonic plate
I thought the same thing but actually seismic activity is pretty similar to waves in the ocean so underground structures are actually really safe during earthquakes.
@@quinnleverett4793 it’s not underground and it would stretch and shrink which is the problem. Train tracks have a solution to this problem a tube with a vaccuum inside does not
more vegas death tunnels please
Smart host to come up with a question with technological and entertainment values.
Japan had high speed rail in the 1950s and maglevs which can go twice as fast as HSR are also a thing in the real world. These are absolutely fine for the ranges that this guy is talking about.
They shoulda been working on a nuke back then not high speed rails
I can't believe I'm seeing this. I thought of tube travel years ago.
Ok. Why do we need fast supersonic speed transportation? We had the CONCORD flying from U.S. to Europe. Now it is no more. America has existed without the CONCORD flying to and fro since the turn of the century. Just wondering.
No. The fuel cost is getting up to altitude. Cruising is almost nothing. So is descending.
I like how he holds the glass like it's a microphone
I only realised it wasnt a microphone after seeing your comment😂😂
Good luck making that hyper loop tube perfectly straight so people don't have jarring ride!
Elon you are thinking of the hyper loop the wrong way.
Take Boston for example an international airport. If you can’t land at Boston your next alternative is 300 miles away.
But Hartford, west over, Worcester, Manchester and Providence all have runways that can handle 747 type traffic and they are all a fraction of the distance.
I have to drive by Hartford to get to Boston.
Your hyper loop could make those six airports effectively 1 airport with vastly greater capacity and flight availability.
If Boston is impossible hyper loop the other five and make competition for Boston.
1st thought: What about bringing the station up? ...
Then 2nd thought: Pressure density, oxygen, weather
This man is a genius. Talks a whole lot of rubbish and makes it sound like the smartest stuff anyone has ever said.
What are you doing to make a difference?
MAGLEV trains are already prohibitively expensive to most situations, put that inside a very expensive vacuum tube and I struggle to see how it is financially ok
God this guy is frigging genius...
so when its ready?
When high speed railroads are already to expensive hyperloops are never going to be ready
Hyperloop wasn’t Elon’s idea and he didn’t think it through. A semi-vacuum in a tube isn’t a bad idea: it’s an awful idea! Crunch!
I miss the Concorde!
Hyperloop is as realistic as a photon torpedo
Hyper loop in LA is a dangerous idea. Earthquakes are no joke.
No, but you could use it to get to Denver international for your supersonic flight😅
Elon describing the ascension and descension.
My brain: a gigantic roller coaster
Concord is band in most air spaces tho
hyperloop will never be ready
The brilliance of this guy is the simplicity.
Amazing eagles point of view...
Well build one!
There's a reason we didn't move into supersonic air travel. The cost is too high and it creates too much noise pollution. I don't think anyone wants to live in a city where they hear a bomb explosion because a civilian plane is breaking the sound barrier. That's why we are still using almost the same commercial airlines technology from 30 years ago with just better software and engine technology to lower the cost and limit pilot error.
Till we figure out a way to make something that can fit a decent capacity of people, more comfortable, cheaper and as efficient (or more), industry will never move into a new technology.
I could totally imagine a hyper loop that goes around the equator of the Earth and north to south as well around the Earth
The hyperloop would be a shorter distance and thus have a far better chance of being faster. It is other reasons that make it impractical.
When did he say the hyperloop was going to be ready?
Imagine going up at an angle then immediately going into a red hot nose dive lol then your seatbelt sign turns off “thanks for flying with space X folks current weather is 75 degrees and we got a nice breeze from the south-southwest”
I beleive Elon is frugal with transportation. Humans don't need to get to Australia from USA in 2 hours. Sometimes good things take time. If it could be done cheap, safe, and with less of a carbon footprint I am sure it would have been done by now. Elon is just being real. Sometimes less is more. I respect Elon not only for his smarts but for his warmth and ability to connect to everyone.
Understanding the operational requirement to develop the optimal solution.
Rarely does Elon say “I don’t know. I’m going to think on that and definitely get back to you with an answer
Bucket List
Supersonic passion for aircraft have not existed since Concord.
Better luck getting it to Neverland than Australia
West Virginia stopped hyperloop
All hype no payoff
Great Video 💙😆 that will be Amazing 😘💞💙💞
We have high speed trains for that
What a good question
1K miles?! that’s about six different tunnels across the United States.
A journey of 1000 Miles starts with one step.
Remember hyperloop before reality got in the way
He talks about Hyperloop and Supersonic Flight like some normal person would talk about the weather outside today. I love how casual he is about it.
When talking about an old idea that someone else had decades ago, knowing full well that this will never happen as the cost is prohibitive and the physics of it is near impossible, I will hold my water so tight that the glass will probably break in my hand if you ask me more than 5 questions on it.
First time he ever used a big boy cup.
😂😂😂😂relentless
I bet you’ve never tried to explain something so out of the regular person’s wheelhouse that you have to dumb it down from PHD level to elementary level… I have, and you forget what you’re holding.