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Podcast: Sounds Like Infrastructure by Ferrovial
Episode: 05 - Tube Travelers: Hyperloop & the Atmospheric Railway | Ferrovial
Description: In 2013, a whitepaper that aimed to revolutionise transport appeared on the internet. The paper had been published by Elon Musk, who had sat down with some SpaceX and Tesla engineers to flesh out the idea for what they called Hyperloop. People thought the whitepaper would come with the news that Musk was launching a new company. But surprisingly, it didn’t. Instead, he made the idea and research open source. By doing that, he had left a tantalising engineering challenge.Almost a decade after the publication of Musk’s paper, Ferrovial are collaborating with...