What Elon Musk and HyVac Have In Common
May 31st 2018
When it comes to the two entities — Elon Musk and scientific vacuum fittings — you wouldn't think they really relate at all. Elon, on one hand, is an entrepreneur and the founder of SpaceX and co-founder and CEO of Tesla. He’s made quite a splash in the fields of science and technology that puts him on Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People and ranking as the 53rd richest person in the world. So the question remains, what do Elon Musk and HyVac have in common?
At HyVac, we are a company that produces USA-made vacuum fittings that include vacuum clamps and vacuum adapters used in scientific research. Our parts are made of high-quality materials such as stainless steel and aluminum perfect for the vacuum conditions needed to complete specific experiments without degradation. Our parts are leading the industry and are made to be reusable, making them a better choice for your lab and the environment. Stick with us for today’s post as we explore what we have in common with Elon Musk — it must be the money!
HyVac is the leading producer in vacuum parts.
Although Musks primary business ventures are with Tesla and SpaceX, in 2016 he founded The Boring Company which focuses on infrastructure and tunnel-construction, which will eventually house the Hyperloop.
What is the Hyperloop?
It’s 2018 and our streets are still lined with cars and commuting in traffic seems to be getting longer and more congested; progress in transportation hasn’t changed much. The days of flying around town with the skies sprinkled with aircrafts is still a thing of science fiction, but Musk with the inception of the Hyperloop is looking to change that.
Musk’s concept of the Hyperloop is air travel, jet packs, or teleportation, but it could revolutionize the way we use public transportation on a big scale, thus reducing commuting time and reducing our environmental impact.
The Hyperloop is in response to California’s Speed Rail System that is a bullet train that Musk thinks is irrelevant, expensive, and one of the slowest mass-transit trains in the world, and he’s wanting to challenge that.
The Hyperloop would consist of two giant evacuated/vacuum steel tubes that travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This is similar to the tubes you used to see at the bank that transported all your documents to the bank teller inside. The Hyperloop will have pods carrying travelers at speeds of over 700 mph. To reach and maintain these speeds magnetic accelerators will run the length of the tubes while keeping a low-pressure environment supporting the pod with a buffer of air — similar to how a hockey puck glides in air hockey. A one-way trip is estimated to take 35 minutes, whereas now, it takes around six hours.
How The Hyperloop Ties Into HyVac
HyVac produces vacuum parts and fittings, and to test the Hyperloop, creating a versatile vacuum testing environment is imperative to verify the pod’s functionality and power system pieces in a vacuum.
Creating a vacuum for the pods minimizes drag force, and the running magnets create a levitation that decreases energy loss. Because the pods are traveling at low-pressure vacuum environments, the pressure induced can be troublesome to the electrical systems with a lack of cooling and potentially outgassing wet electrolytic capacitors. To find solutions to these concerns, a vacuum testing environment is required for varying power and signal feedthrough opportunities.
And, who else can supply scientists with the parts needed to complete these test runs? None other than HyVac. To begin research, HyVac is able to supply vacuum hardware including vacuum gaskets and other fittings to complete a vacuum chamber to test conditions for the Hyperloop.
Elon Musk is innovating the world we live in through his companies such as SpaceX, Tesla, and The Boring Company — perhaps in the next decade or two, we’ll travel to space and have mass transportation that supports the environment while getting people to their destinations much more quickly.
Vacuum parts and vacuum fittings play a role in this technology and is connected to Elon Musk and his ventures with the hyperloop by offering the best American-made vacuum hardware to test specific variables the pod might encounter. Who knows, maybe we’ll even have the opportunity to work with Musk on the Hyperloop!