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"Elon Musk is trying to conquer space travel. He's spearheading a new class of electric vehicles. And now the entrepreneur is planning his next venture: a high-speed transportation system that some say could rival planes, trains and automobiles.\nMusk \u2014 a co-founder of PayPal \u2014 tweeted Monday that the alpha design for his \"Hyperloop\" system will be published by Aug. 12. The Hyperloop system Musk is working on is \"a solar-powered inter-city passenger transport system,\" according to Bloomberg. Musk is now seeking feedback about the Hyperloop design:\n\nWill publish Hyperloop alpha design by Aug 12. Critical feedback for improvements would be much appreciated.\n\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2013\n\nSee also: Could This Beautiful Design Concept Be the iPhone 5S?\nPassengers on this high-speed tube transportation system could be able to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in minutes and between California and the East Cost in under an hour, Yahoo reported. The \"pods\" that people might travel on in this system will be around two meters, Musk said on Twitter. But the transport won't happen inside vacuum tunnels.\nIn July 2012, Musk hinted to PandoDaily about the project. On Monday, Musk tweeted back to some inquisitors, divulging a few more clues.\n\n@progresstinator am feeling a little more optimistic, altho some important design tweaks still need to be made\n\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2013\n\nMusk also suggested that his design won't be patented and Hyperloop will be open-source.\nLongmont, Colo., based ET3 is reportedly working on a similar mode of transport that it calls \"space travel on Earth.\" ET3's \"Evacuated Tube Transport\" system is made up of \"car-sized passenger capsules\" that could travel 370 mph for in-state trips and 4,000 mph for international travel.\nImage via Jordan Strauss/Getty Images\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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