A startup promises to disrupt Canada's transportation system.
Excerpt from this story from Treehugger:
TransPod, formerly known as TransPod Hyperloop, unveiled the FluxJet—"an industry-defining innovation that transforms the way we live, work, and travel." According to the recent announcement made in Toronto, this is entirely new technology promising affordability, speed, and reduced carbon footprint.
"Based on groundbreaking innovations in propulsion and fossil-fuel-free clean energy systems, the FluxJet is a fully electric vehicle that is effectively a hybrid between an aircraft and a train," said the company in a statement. "Featuring technological leaps in contactless power transmission and a new field of physics called veillance flux, the FluxJet travels in a protected guideway at over 1000 km/h – faster than a jet and three times as fast as a high-speed train."
The word "hyperloop" appears to have been expunged from the company. Even its website address has been changed to eliminate the word, which is encouraging. I have previously defined hyperloopism as "a crazy new and unproven technology which nobody is sure will work, that probably isn't better or cheaper than the way things are done now, and is often counterproductive and used as an excuse to actually do nothing at all."
But TransPod is actually doing something. It is commencing work on a route in Canada from Calgary to Edmonton, the two largest cities in Alberta, separated by 185 miles of killer highway. The FluxJet will fly between them in a steel tube in about 45 minutes.
