Yingchuang 3D printing architecture helps to achieve a science fiction dream of hyperloop

Tesla founder Musk has proposed a new transport concept Hyperloop (speeding high-speed rail), which can reach speeds of up to 1200 kilometers per hour and can reach San Francisco in half an hour. That's what a lot of people talk about today.

This dream is achieved by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies through the way of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing. It says it will build a prototype of a prototype of a true size in California in 2016. More than 400 part-time engineers, from NASA, Boeing, SpaceX, and WINSUN, have formed a dream team.

Yingchuang, which is the first high-tech enterprise that achieves to print building by 3D technology, signed an agreement with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies on August, 2016. Yingchuang 3D printing technology will help to achieve this unbelievable dream.

Yingchuang will participate in the construction of super high-speed rail in the United States with the mode of technology crowdsourcing. Yingchuang R&D team will develop a 3D printing technology suitable for high-speed high-speed rail for this project and print high strength, high precision super high speed rail pipeline facilities and stations, platform based on 3D printing architecture technology. Compared with steel and resin-type pipes, Yingchuang 3D printing technology need not a series of complex procedures. The printer can produce zero error pipes after the drawings is put into the computer. And these pipes are all in shape, well sealed and very strong.

What is hyperloop? Actually it is simple to explain. There are 28 passengers in the capsule. We put the capsule up in the pipe and vacuum the pipe to reach the atmospheric value at 200,000 feet. So it's the same thing with aircraft, when we're in the air, there's no resistance. So when there's no resistance, the capsule can run almost at the sound speed. So the system that we built, the front end is a compressor that sucks in air and pushes it behind. That means the air inside the pipe will be sucked out and then pushed the capsule forward behind it, and it's not complicated.

Because there is no resistance in the pipeline, we can use very little energy. This is the key, because in other transportation systems, the cars are raised to move the energy needed. There is too much energy used in high-speed rail. That's why we're more efficient than any other transportation system. The renewable energy we use not just include solar energy. We want to make the most of wind energy, to use the kinetic energy in the pipeline, the wind in the pipeline, to generate electricity, and we can collect the electricity, so that we can use energy more efficiently. In addition, we can use geothermal energy when the solar power is not so efficient. So, in general, we can generate more electricity than we consume, and the system can even deliver excess power to the grid. 

The structure is built on the bridge tower.  The reason for that is very simple: the towers can be earthquake-resistant, and they can withstand earthquakes of magnitude eight or more.