Climate Change Choices

Perhaps a reasonable position on global warming might cement the positive impact of a global mag lift system.There is no doubt that climate change will have a very negative effect. The mean temperature of the Earth has remained relatively the same for almost a decade meaning the climate change we are currently experiencing is a decade old reaction. As more ice melts more heat will be retained so this alone will restart the heating process that has remained dormant while climate change plays catch up.
The progression of GHG has been documented in an assessment of how much methane will be released through a further warming related to polar ice melt.The GHG rating of methane is 20 times higher than carbon dioxide. The magnitude of change under any scenario is so immense that turning out a few lights or even shutting down our coal fired gen station could be compared to removing a bucket of water from Lake Ontario.To be realist, and serious, we would have to shut down the worlds complete economic activity to a point that would as one poster noted, a population adjustment would occur. Dream about Kyoto or Canada organizing Asia Pacific countries to act together, it won`t be near enough to compete with even arctic methane release. All this at a cost of a `population adjustment` (downward) to say nothing of the new harbour called the Fraser Valley.
We have two main choices, do nothing or trade a population adustment to slow climate change down.
Is it just me running out of sugar coating or is it the case we all work together or all go to Hell together?Figuratively speaking of course but I don`t doubt many grand children and on will wish that`s were we went.


I`ve created enough threads for comments on the topics of interest so I`ll end this stream with, it`s only $50m.

The concept. ""Individual Vehicle"" magnetic lift, magnetic propulsion transportation system.

We need to completely replace our current transportation system with an `individual vehicle maglev system`. The first consideration would be the worse case scenario of running out of oil in 20 years, best case 50 years. No fuel, no transportation, no chemicals, no medications.
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http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/298/14/1688

Journal of American Medical Association.

JAMA. 2007

Peak Petroleum and Public Health
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Mass transit is not versatile enough to replace individual vehicles, even converting over to electric cars won`t solve traffic and transportation problems but will cause an expansion in our already troubled paved road system.
A global mag transportation system has all the checks in the right boxes. It`s time for the two sides to think out of the box and pool the $50m needed to start a global competition with Cdn universities.Yes individual vehicle is still a working concept while the 65t train is a protype (links below) but we need to ramp up the effort with a global design competition. It`s really the only hope for climate change, and likely humanities future.
The current technology can and has been improved. A US company recently announced they had increased the efficiency of solar panels by 50%. Newer versions are flexible and could be a power generating cover.
Universities are the places to put new technology into design features.
It will create more jobs than workers, 0 emissions, far fewer paved roads, no gridlock, high speed, 300+ kph and theoretically could replace our aging electric transmission grids and of course cutting commute times by 75%. At speed a single rail or transportation tube, TT, will move as many vehicles as a 6 lane freeway while reversing urban pollution that`s causing a health care crisis starting with the increasing asthma epidemic.
A basic fee plus distance charges in the form of a toll creates a viable and sustainable driver of the global economy, vs armaments, hmmm, see thread `War as an Investment`

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Starting with, good or bad news?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Experts Discuss Engineering Feats, Like Space Mirrors, to Slow Climate Change
Dr. Keith, an organizer of the conference, said that at one time he thought scientists should not talk in public about "geoengineering" remedies for global warming — like injecting chemicals into the upper atmosphere to cool the poles
"Will there be some consequences you don’t like?" Dr. Keith said in an interview. "Of course."
engineering a cooler earth would do nothing for other climate-related problems, like the way accumulating carbon is making the oceans more acidic.
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Hopeful news
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DUALMODE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/rev/rev9.htm

August 01, 2006

Dualmode maglev cars will be physically independent, separately owned, separately powered, and will go their separate ways, just as vehicles on our highways do.
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Maglev Quicklinks

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/maglevq.htm

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Professor Peter Peumans of Stanford University, whohas reviewed the U of T team’s research"Our calculations show that, with further improvementsin efficiency, combining infrared and visiblephotovoltaics could allow up to 30 per cent of thesun’s radiant energy to be harnessed, compared to six per cent in today’s best plastic solar cells."
The power solutions to a mag lift transportationsystem may be closer than we think.
Train magnetic levitation and propulsion



http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick.htm

Personal Automated Transport (PAT)

http://home.pacifier.com/~winiecki/Higherway/contact.html

http://www.taxi2000.com/aboutus.html

http://www.acroscape.com/
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http://www.unc.edu/~wardma/levandprop.htm

Different designs have been created, each having their own pros and cons.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad3.htm


Technical information

http://home.wanadoo.nl/lex.molenaar/PAMB/PubliPDF/act96pap.pdf
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Super conductor maglev experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4XEQVnIFmQ

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_train

Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) using electromagnetic force. This method can be faster than wheeled mass transit systems, potentially reaching velocities comparable to turboprop and jet aircraft (900 km/h, 600 mph ). The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003, which is 4 mph more than the conventional TGV speed record.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12928751,00.html

New Train Speed Record
Updated: 13:55, Monday November 17, 2003
A Japanese train broke its own world speed record when engineers sent it hurtling 347mph down a test track west of Tokyo.
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It`s only $50m to put the brightest in the land to work, time is not exactly on humanities side.