To me there seems to be more than an ample amount of structural and technological abilities to remove nearly all of transports current energy consumptions that we know today. The last remaining barrier is air resistance.
And Yes I have met Darryl Oyster. I find that transporting in a vacuum is most interesting.
Jerry Roane expressed his concern with
1.claustrophobia,
2.maintaining a breathable atmosphere.
3. maintaining the vacuum.
a. system wide
b. accomplishing egresses
All reasonable issues which need to be fully addressed
My interest is in changing highways into a form which does not fragment habitat.
Means replacing highways in an elevated, buried, enclosed, and or combined form.
An enclosed form is the most ideal being both ecologically and environmentally sound.
The benefits of enclosure are enormous- As that accomplishment of a secure and controlled environment allows transport and utility processes to begin technologically evolving. There are a great many waiting technologies which cannot be reliably applied in today's open environments.
1.claustrophobia
I do not see claustrophobia being an issue in a system which is large enough to accommodate the smooth transition of today's vehicles and containers.
2.maintaining a breathable atmosphere
Could be problematic in a capsule carrier.
It seems reasonable that oxygen can be provided. however a prolonged stay will probably need scrubbing abilities.
3. maintaining the vacuum.
a. system wide
Leaves me to wonder in what level of vacuum is necessary or desirable. I presume a low level vacuum will suffice and may be easier to maintain.
I seem to recall a mention that vacuums are not just achieved by pumps sucking out the air but can also be accomplished through some type of electronic process.
3. maintaining the vacuum.
b. accomplishing egresses
The capsule may need to be in two stages. one which is the carrier frame which never leaves the system to prevent contaminations and another which maintains a breathable atmosphere and opens to receive cargo.
The cost in providing such an egress is likely to be considerable.
So far a round capsule seems the most advantageous shape. I like it as it lends itself easily to automated pitching and rolling which can take up g-forces and or redirect forces generated in the transport and or egress processes.
The precise ability to electrically control speeds and braking with pitch and roll should limit the distances in switching - braking and diminish the required amounts of structure necessity.
I keep imagining an egg shaped guide way that will allow a capsule to rotate, pitch and roll.
Is it practical to think that in egresses the capsule could roll over when verticaly changing lanes thus placing the g-forces on occupants into the seat where it can be comfortably managed.
A braking application that reverses the vehicles positions as if in those generated in acceleration.
What are acceptable g-force levels?
Is a low level vacuum acceptable?
Are atmospere scrubbers necesary and can they be reliably provided. Or can a face mask be an acceptable alternative?
The CORRIDOR CONCEPT
Project: EXPONENTIAL
Humanity's Highway to a Sustainable Society
George Schrader
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Evolution = Revolution IDS Integrated Distribution System
The lucrative transformation of highways into the diminished and limited provision of a permanent structure. Whose secure and controlled environment then allows transport and utilities to technologically evolve.
Amazingly all in a practical application of reliably known structural and technological abilities whose manner of form and processes are not just ecologically and environmentally sound. But whose multitude of exponentially increased abilities in efficiencies, speeds, safety, and ease of use will truly revolutionize the population’s availability in time, energy, and resources.
What is a permanent concrete pipe? What is magnetic suspension? What is electric propulsion and braking regeneration? What is a vacuum? What is a capsule just large enough to accommodate the smooth transition of today’s vehicles and containers?
It is the reliable accomplishment of transport comparably with out its energy and resource consumptions! With out its accidents and congestions. Whose ease in automated speeds leaves them limited only by those G-Forces generated.
My figures suggest that such a system will not incur the cost of highways and whose energy efficiency revenues alone promise to be 5 times greater than is the spending on highways. A 500% annual return in providing a permanent structure and components is not lucrative, its absurd.
If you build it they will come.