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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Individual vehicle magnetic lift, propulsion transportation system.

I`ve sent a similar proposal to Impact your world but as the`ve set a time limit on any project having an effect in the next two years I doubt if it will be considered as I see a time line of four to five years before we see results.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html

Individual vehicle magnetic lift, propulsion transportation system.

lol, please don`t shake your head, we have the technology.
The current transportation system has many problems, pollution followed by paving over the country while grid-lock continues to increase. With infrastructure continuing to decay the situation will only get worse even if we manage to eliminate pollution with 100% electric vehicles.
The system needs to be replaced in whole.
We have the basic technology now.
If this seems like a reasonable idea it needs to fund a team of engineers to complete the final prospectus. From this universities from around the world would compete for the best design.
As I`m a fiscally conservative populist the building, management including maintenance or upgrades is put to private tender while the infrastructure is owned by the people.
0 pollution, far fewer paved roads, no grid-lock, initial speeds of 300mph, more jobs globally than workers, with a very good chance the electrical transmission lines in need of about $1T in refurbishing could be replaced by using the maglift system for the transmission of electricity while powering the mag lift system.
Even if we took the crude we convert to gas and burned the crude in a scrubber burner to power a maglift we would not only reduce pollution greatly but increase the efficiency by eliminating the refinery process.
I have spent a few years studying this and have attempted to encourage the Canadian government to kick off a global university design competition with little success as I do not have any engineering degrees. Should you decide to fund this endeavor the money will be used to assemble a team of engineers to finalize the proposal into a format government will understand.
In closing the global economy is faltering, this project will create more jobs than workers and will set the right course for many decades on many fronts.
Should you wish more information of the guidelines for a global university competition or private funding/profit I would be pleased to answer any questions not included in the foregoing.
Thank you
Robert Smith.
British Columbia Canada---
The whole of the global population
Global university competition for the best design. As we have the best and brightest who will be building and using this the most they should also have the final say on all the design components.

-----------DUALMODE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMAugust 01, 2006Dualmode maglev cars will be physically independent, separately owned, separately powered, and will go their separate ways, just as vehicles on our highways do.----------------Maglev Quicklinks-----------------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 propulsionPersonal Automated Transport (PAT)-------------------Different designs have been created, each having their own pros and cons.Technical informationhttp://home.wanadoo.nl/lex.molenaar/PAMB/PubliPDF/act96pap.pdf-------------Super conductor maglev experiment------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_trainMagnetic 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.

4 Comments:

Blogger Molinari said...

As author of the magnetic propulsion and levitation article cited, I feel obliged to state that levitation technology is not and will never be a low energy solution for general transportation needs, since classic rolling element bearings are much more energy efficient and require much less raw material. Magnetic suspension actuators are fundamentally as large as air tires, wheras wheel bearings are much much smaller.
Only for inductrial applications with an almost 100% duty cycle like public transportation it can be a viable solution, especially at high speeds where rolling element bearings and their seals start to generate substantial heat losses.
Best regards,
Lex Molenaar, PhD

3:50 AM  
Blogger voxpopuli said...

Your comment is appreciated.

On rough calculations the amount of energy used by combustion engine vehicles applied to a levitation system is substantially less when including the loss of refining oil to gasoline. A single source energy supply using fossil fuels would need little refining, even including scrubbers to provide close to 0 emission generation.

6:28 AM  
Blogger Molinari said...

I'm a huge fan of electric cars and and plug hybrids, so of electromagnetic actuators used for propulsion. I'm just cynical to the levitation part of your proposal, since countering gravity in combination with the freedom to roll forward doesn't require more then a rolling element bearing. Rare earth permanent magnets can provide levitation for almost zero power consumed, but they are rare...
See http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_T._Schippers#Wetenschap_.26_Techniek

6:41 AM  
Blogger voxpopuli said...

Lex

"countering gravity in combination with the freedom to roll forward doesn't require more then a rolling element bearing"

Fully agree that is true at current speed but at projected maglev minimum speed of 300 mph rolling friction increases while maglev remains static.
Your consideration appreciated

Robert

9:01 AM  

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