EEVblog 1498 - TransPod Fluxjet Hyperloop $550M Boondoggle!

The Transpod FluxJet is Hyperloop based on the "New physics" of "Veillance Flux"!
And plasma arc power transfer!
$550M to create a reduced pressure Fluxjet link from Calgary to Edmonton in Canada.
It'll only cost $18B, what a bargain!
And Sydney to Brisbane? Err, yeah, ok, let's look at that...

00:00 - Transpod Fluxjet "Totally NOT Hyperloop"
00:52 - CNN Travel Article - Quality journalism
02:12 - Veillance Flux? WTF
03:36 - Only $18BN!
04:30 - $550M funding!
06:37 - Let's watch the promo video!
08:38 - Is that a breadboard?
12:50 - Feasibility study
18:35 - The operational annimation sequence
19:56 - It's plasma stabilised!
20:32 - Activate the Veillance Flux!
21:37 - How does the physical demo work?
22:23 - Sydney to Brisbane?
24:38 - The European regional development fund
25:25 - $550M in funding CONFIRMED!
27:28 - Original concept
27:55 - The co-founder's "new physics"
30:09 - Electric arc "plasma" power transfer
33:16 - Veillance Flux technology!
33:41 - It's totally NOT Maglev!

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[WizardTim]

At 0:43 in the demo video you can see they have an even smaller scale test vehicle that appears to be in an actual vacuum chamber and you can see their "plasma energy transfer" at work, wish we had more footage of that, however no clue how you're going to pump a megawatt through this plasma at scale without destroying your electrodes in an instant.

But how much would that larger prototype have cost to build? Before I thought they were just lying about having half a billion in funding but after seeing close ups of that thing I see they have to have that sort of money to build something like that. Although it's clearly not capable of magnetic levitation with those "superconducting" microwave oven transformers it still has taken a decent amount of money and effort to construct and I can bet it has done its job to convince even more investors to open their wallets wide.

[dong.]

Smart move of Rolex to advertise through CNN travel; anyone who believes these articles will easily be parted of their money

[josephallen]

You misunderstand: it's not between Sydney and Brisbane on earth, it's between New Sydney and New Brisbane on the Moon! Perfectly feasible there, no tube needed for the vacuum, land is cheap, can build in a straight line.

[StevenOBrien]

29:00 I read the full paper and the "veillance flux theory" essentially says "there are technologies that exist that allow for observing changes in an environment, and they can be combined". That's it.

[unprintable]

Plasma in vacuum... Sounds like you'll get free X-Rays with every ride too! Amazing!

[k-mc]

You've given this the exact amount of sarcasm it deserves

[alessi]

Hyperloop was never about engineering, it was about blocking future train infrastructure. Great video as always

[YSPACElabs]

Of course the veliance flux keeps the inducto-resonant coupling of the stators in a stable arrangement. That's the only way for the dynamic entropy halbach array to work dynamically.

[MrDehicka]

For the reference, England HS2 budget got over $100Bn and the construction is not even close to be finished.
Just a regular high speed train without plasma, vacuum and flux capacitors.

[mikeselectricstuff]

28:52 sounded like pure Turbo Encabulator

[sonictech]

I can see the patent now. "A mechanism and apparatus for separating investors from their money. "

[foobarables]

It seems like they where building the electromagnet driver on a breadboard with cascaded 4017's because they don't have an arduino programmer yet.

[PanheadEL]

My town spent actual money to study a Hyperloop route connecting Chicago, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. My only hope is that they can use the data for a traditional rail line at some point.

[teardowndan]

Long straight tubular sections are going to be fun for thermal expansion when temperature goes from 50+C being beaten down by the sun in summer to -40C cold snaps in winter.

[mihaiachim]

21:17 if you cool it with liquid and put all the heat from all the electrical elements into the capsule, you end up turning the capsule into an oven or thermos (being in a vacuum - therefore thermally insulated) :p
Instead of showing us methods of dissipating the heat from the capsule to the outside, it shows us how it stores the heat inside it :p

[xjet]

This is why we can't have nice things... because the people with money keep wasting it on follies like this.

[MauroTamm]

If you look at it from the front, I think this is where the Flux Capacitor is installed.
The plasma skates are used to transfer Jigawatts to power it.

[dasphantom]

I'm just impressed. The presentation with all that 3d models, panorama view and this website pretty impressive stuff. Sad that they don't put that much effort into trains.

[marktownend]

A big advantage of conventional high speed rail is that if there is already a reasonably specced conventional rail network in major cities you can use that to gain access through the most dense urban areas and then branch off onto new dedicated high speed infrastructure once out in the countryside. Most European HS networks developed gradually that way. In Japan they had to build new everywhere due to incompatibility with their legacy narrow track gauge. Even there, the new HS tracks often closely followed existing rail corridors in urban areas.

[Bigrignohio]

For the added expense and complexity, it is more cost-effective to build a standard high-speed maglev.