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<\/a>Imagine a mode of transportation that\u2019s at least twice as fast as a plane, costs less to build than a bullet train and runs on sunlight. Think it\u2019s possible?<\/p>\nWell, American entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk does.<\/p>\n
It was first reported toward the end of the summer that Musk — who\u2019s often described as a real-life Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) — was working on something he calls the \u201cHyperloop,\u201d which would be some sort of tube capable of travelling between downtown San Francisco and Los Angeles in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat you want is something that never crashes, that\u2019s at least twice as fast as a plane, that\u2019s solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time,\u201d Musk told Bloomberg Businessweek<\/a> back in September.<\/p>\n According to Musk\u2019s friends, he had a Hyperloop technological breakthrough over the summer.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to talk to the governor and president about it,\u201d Musk told Bloomberg. \u201cBecause the $60 billion bullet train they\u2019re proposing in California would be the slowest bullet train in the world at the highest cost per mile. They\u2019re going for records in all the wrong ways.\u201d (Musk says the San Francisco to LA Hyperloop would be in the $6 billion range.)<\/p>\n And that\u2019s about all the information that was available, until now\u2026<\/p>\n