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Pipenet4/1/2024 ![]() So when Cotana says that the Hyperloop idea laid out by Musk in an initial white paper in 2013 (and subsequently made open source so that anyone can develop the idea) is a copy of his own, it’s not like there were no other sources for Musk’s team to draw inspiration from.īut true or not (Musk did not respond to a request for comment), none of this really matters. Through the 20th century, there were proposals using magnetic levitation to help super fast travel, including one by MIT engineers in the 1990s. In the 19th century, people were transported in pneumatic railways and goods through tubes. In 1799, inventor George Medhurst proposed an idea to move goods through cast-iron pipes using air pressure. Ideas similar to the hyperloop have been around in Europe for 200 years. “It was a masterful copy.”Ĭopy might be a bit strong. “The only major difference was the diameter of the tube,” he said. That project is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.Ĭotana says he believes Musk copied his idea. Though Cotana, a professor at the University of Perugia, first patented it in 2000, there is another project in the US which is similar, only leagues more successful. ![]() The Pipenet was once the largest working prototype of its kind, a magnet-powered funnel designed to transport goods at thousands of kilometres an hour, faster than any train, car or plane.
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