Deep Underground Base Technology Used in SpaceX HyperLoop Supersonic Tunnel Transit System? ~ hehe drip, drip, Drip , DRIP ...how "old" r some of these "patents" ???
Robert M. Salter’s original design from a 1978 Rand Corporation Study
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Some technologies are not meant for public view or accreditation until the time is right. When these amazing scientific advances are brought forth it is done slowly and presented as cool and convenient. As with computers, cell phones and the internet among many other modern technologies. Always set in boring terms so the general public doesn’t notice. One rule applies. The military gets it first. Then some civilian corporation with close ties and funding from the U.S. government just happens to “pick up” the research. Military research and development that is many years old has a second market in the public sector. This may be the case with Deep Underground Base and Tunneling technology that has been rumored to exist for decades. These documented subjects are dismissed as theory until they are no longer theory. Now the idea of underground supersonic tunnel transit connecting cities is publicized in the form of Elon Musk’s HyperLoop concept. Being originally tested above ground. Is SpaceX is thinking about taking the idea subterranean?
Elon Musk may actually be serious about tunneling under L.A.
USA Today
“Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging,” he tweeted at the time, adding, “it shall be called ‘The Boring Company.'”Just going to slap together a tunneling machine and a supersonic train in a month? Such a boring endeavor being undertaken. It is true he is the only one in the world that can say something like that and actually mean it. Having somehow gotten the keys to the kingdom to many technologies that used to be the sole domain of national governments it would be hard to discount the statement. What is this technology based on and what will it look like in its final version?
One Tweet reported by USA Today states he intends to bore a tunnel under the L.A. to save time on traffic.
Could there be a pilot project planned for the HyperLoop system? A prototype is currently being tested at Space X Headquarters. Musk himself leaving much room for speculation with nebulous Tweets about underground tunnels. Possibly even pitching it as an infrastructure project to the new U.S. Administration.
Hyperloop pod race happening this weekend at SpaceX HQ (near LAX). We built a ~mile long vacuum tube on our campus big enough to fit people. Elon Musk @elonmusk
Very Similar to HyperLoop System
Salter’s Original design. Was it built?
Exact same concept as HyperLoop
A Rand corporation physicist has devised a rapid transit system to get you from Los Angeles to NY in half an hour for a $50 fair. He said existing technology made such a system feasible and so does a cost analysis. The essence of the idea is to dig a tunnel more or less along the present routes of U.S. highways 66 and thirty. The tunnel would contain several large tubes for East West travel of trains that float on magnetic fields, moving at top speeds of 10,000 mph. Passengers would faced forwarded during acceleration, backward during deceleration. According to R. M. Salter Jr. head of the physical sciences department at Rand, the idea of high-speed train travel using electromagnetic suspension was first put forward in 1905 and actually patented in 1912. The trains he suggested now would be single cars rather than actual trains, and would be big enough to carry both passengers and freight, including large containers and automobiles. LA Times June 11 1972This article has led many to speculate that Deep Underground Bases and the Tunnel systems that connect them have been in use for many years. Precious little hard proof has come up that this system actually exists in the capacity described here. Although some of this evidence is very compelling. The SpaceX concept is very similar to Salter’s design.
The tubes would be emptied of air, almost to the point of vacuum, so the trains would not need much power to overcome air resistance. They would not even have to be streamlined. In addition to an electromagnetic roadbeds, the opposing electromagnetic loops of wires in the floors of the gondolas would be super cooled with liquid Helium to further eliminate electrical resistance. LA Times June 11 1972No doubt underground bases such as N.O.R.A.D., Weather Mountain and many others have been popularized and tunneling projects are going on all around the world. Some more intriguing than others. Still tantalizing connections come too light from time to time reinforcing the narrative that the public is not being told the whole story.
What may be more telling could be the method of tunneling that may be used if a larger version of SpaceX’s HyperLoop were too be built. Many researchers have pointed to advanced tunneling methods and boring equipment possibly used by the Defense Department. Boring machines first patented by the Atomic Energy Commission and US Energy. These could be used to construct Deep Underground Bases. As depicted in the patents the boring machines melt the surrounding rock leaving a perfectly smooth surface behind. If such boring machines were built, they could make circular patterns at different levels connected by vertical corridors. Forming a multilevel turn key sealed Underground or even Underwater base.
Perfect for a vacuum or semi pressurized tunnel the HyperLoop system needs. Time will tell if these patents get pulled into use for a scaled up project.
Method and apparatus for tunneling by melting US 3693731 A
Melts rock leaving perfectly sealed smooth tunnel behind with no need for supports or reinforcement
Boring
in a circular patterns going down in levels with vertical
shafts connecting. The machine can go in a corkscrew fashion down in
levels creating multilevel complexs underground
Creating a multilevel sealed turn key Underground Base
Salter said many tunnels are dug nowadays almost as they would have been in the dark ages. Drilling holes in tunnel faces, and using machines with rotary bits are methods of tunneling that can be improved, according to him. He said the tunnel could be worked on from a great many “faces,” for instance. Salter suggested, too, that electronic beams or even water be used to drill holes for blasting. The high-powered electrons would drill blasting holes almost instantaneously. LA Times June 11 1972
Indeed the HyperLoop concept is almost identical to Salter’s work in form and function with a few minor tweaks. The SpaceX design paper gives credit to Rand and Salter’s work. Even the justifications for such a project are mirrored almost exactly.
Is there truly a new mode of transport – a fifth mode after planes, trains, cars and boats – that meets those criteria and is practical to implement? Many ideas for a system with most of those properties have been proposed and should be acknowledged, reaching as far back as Robert Goddard’s to proposals in recent decades by the Rand Corporation and ET3. HyperLoop Design Concept p 2What form this project will take in it’s final version is unclear. If it is built to full scale at all. What is clear is that this line of research and development is based off an idea long ridiculed in the main stream. Is this another advanced technology to be mainlined to the public now that it’s time?
Reposted from NaturalNews Blogs written By raptorman
Sources:
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/25/elon-musk-the-boring-company-tunnels/97030778/
https://twitter.com/
http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4874.html
http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6092.html
https://www.google.com/patents/
https://www.intellihub.com/l-a-to-n-y-in-half-an-hour-10000-plus-m-p-h-tunnel-train-developed/
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