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hyperloop vacuum tubes for high speed travel
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Our project was inspired by a simple but critical problem: distance should never determine survival. We were motivated to design a system that treats time as the most valuable resource, ensuring patients reach advanced care as quickly and safely as possible.
Our final design is a hybrid emergency medical transportation system tailored to Thodelandia’s geography. For long-distance, high-speed travel between City PG and City HSL, we designed a vacuum tube high-speed train capable of traversing desert and mountainous regions efficiently within the 45-minute requirement. This system maximizes patient throughput while minimizing travel time. To handle local transport across the plains, we introduced propeller-powered ground vehicles acting as medical taxis.
The biggest challenge was figuring out a mode of transport capable of travelling 45km (+-5km) in 45 minutes, which equates to more than 50km/hr. With an atmosphere greater than 80 times earth, all conventional modes of travel wouldn't work, and any options we could come up with were too slow given the power constraints as well. With that, we decided to remove the atmospheric effect entirely and introduced vacuum tubes that eliminate the heavy drag forces and allow extreme high speed travel between the desert and mountains.
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