Next Generation Logistics CargoTube: Carbon Neutral High Throughput Logistics By Low-pressure Tube Transportation

Abstract

CargoTube is an innovative approach for decarbonized, efficient, effective, and safe transport. Carbon neutral operation providing high-speed movement of goods enables a sustainable link between urban and economic regions, such as production facilities. Air resistance causes the vast majority of the energy consumption in high-speed transportation. The losses by air friction scale with the velocity cubed and are unavoidably lost by aero- and thermodynamic laws. The straightforward solution operates the transportation within a tube at 100-1000 fold reduced air pressure. Low-pressure tube transport employs existing technology with low infrastructure requirements for high-throughput cargo applications based on hyperloop technologies. CargoTube is quicker and less costly to deploy, but complementary to and compatible with emerging hyperloop standards and technologies.