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| Nov 16, 2009 6:47 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: whatever happened to the Snow Motor ... ? |
Ken Hilving
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Wow, I can hardly wait for those hovercraft to come roaring past my house, blowing dust through the window screens, ruining my nap and choking me when I step outside to curse them. ;-)
Or perhaps instead a high speed train that is an elevated maglev, with a greatly reduced footprint on the ground compared to even a single lane road, with no wheels and only the sound of a fast moving object through the air. Sound lasting only a few moments as it passes by at several hundred miles per hour. Offering far less threat to cars, pedestrians, livestock, and wildlife as it passes overhead.
Or perhaps that elevated maglev will instead be a "packet" solution, individual small maglev "trucks" that can carry automobiles on a demand basis, allowing the "final mile" to remain a roadway solution while adding safety, speed, and a reduced infrastructure solution to the interstate highways. Small maglev busses for those who prefer or require a station to station solution. Standard segments, factory built to exacting quality specifications, and so easily expanded, repaired, and rerouted as needs change.
As for the roadways, its been almost 200 years since MacAdam created the road concept beneath our asphalt and concrete pavement. Perhaps its time to adopt a new approach that supports the traffic without putting a ribbon of crust on top of the soil? Perhaps its time to consider grid paving solutions that allow water to return to the soil it falls on and plants to grow where today asphalt and concrete hold heat and cause polluted runoffs? Private Reply to Ken Hilving (new win) |
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