Well for an average of around $40 million per mile for light rail we can get about 200 miles of rail. High speed on the other hand I have no
idea how much that costs. Lets say it costs what seattle paid for their light rail system, 208.33 million per mile. Your 8 billion is only
going to take you 38.4 miles. That isn't even far enough to reach Columbus Ohio from Marion Ohio (where I live for instance).
The problem with rail is not their speed. I'd be perfectly happy with rail travel at 60 miles per hour. The true problem with rail is that
people prefer to ride cars because they are more convenient. When the time is right this is what may happen:
say 12 years from now when gas becomes $10 a gallon...
This will price a lot of people of of their jobs (no more 60 mile commutes for a $12 an hour job).
Some industrious individuals get together and buy time on heavy rails which web the whole country already. They make train stations combined
with communal car rental businesses. The cars they rent out are done so on an hour per hour basis for say $0.70 cents per hour. If you are on
an 9 hour shift it will then cost you $6.3 per day to rent your temp car. Ride with a friend to cut it down in half. These cars are cheap
little cars with low top speeds and limited range. They might even be electric because you don't need long ranges in a lot of areas. I'm
thinking smart cars with wifi network fleet management. If these cars are being used 75% of a full day (from 2-3 shifts of workers) they will
gross $10.8 a day. Each year they could bring in $2754 if used 5 days a week on average. If the smartcar cost $10,000 it would take 3.63
years to break even. If each car is driven 10 miles on average per shift per day with 75% utilization it would run about 40 miles per day. At
5 days a week each year the car would be driven 10200 miles. These things when properly taken care of should last then about 13-15 years,
plenty long enough to make money on I think.
Say you live in Marion Ohio and want to commute to Powell Ohio (36 miles) for some kind of factory job there. Get in your beater car, drive
it to the station get on the train for $4.5 bucks. Rent a car with a pal for $3.25. Your transportation costs will be not much more than
$12.25 for the day. You save wear and tear on your beater car and you avoid the worst parts of traffic between home and work. if your beater
car gets 26 miles to the gallon like mine then you don't have to spend $26.38 on gas for a savings of $14.13 in fuel alone
Heavy rails are already in place.
This plan wouldn't work with out super high fuel costs. But who knows how much longer our cartopia can last?
"The new research suggests that the longer-than-expected period of petrification may have been linked to changes in the way a hot grits like mass of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun."
But isn't it strange that we have 4000 pounds of steel moving a single 200 pound passenger around (most of the time)?
100 years from now they will laugh at this.
Look at some of these threads on digg or reddit. The top 5 posts might be vacant 1 line hoorahs with 40 positive votes for or against something while at the bottom of the page are posts with no votes that have a whole paragraph or more of carefully thought out prose. Sites like digg and reddit shun rational posters and promote shrill emotional voices. There is little of value to be gleaned from the comments there. At least on slashdot people can moderate posts with some kind of identification like insightful, funny, interesting, troll, or flamebait. Hell I've seen +2 troll posts that were actually pretty good stabs.
Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System isn't a peltier type device. An excerpt from the link:
"The JTEC is an all solid-state engine that operates on the Ericsson cycle. Equivalent to Carnot, the Ericsson cycle offers the maximum theoretical efficiency available from an engine operating between two temperatures"
Carnot like efficiency is pretty amazing for a solid state device. Hell for any device...
Of course, even though it may be more efficient, it doesn't automatically make it more economical.
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If only data centers could be powered by forum posts like this. Theres an unlimited supply to draw from.
A cell phone powered by radio waves? Like a crystal radio? The speaker would suck but hey.. at least the electronics mig
lets say a kid never had a vaccination in his entire life (find on in Africa maybe?) that has autism. Doesn't that blow away the theory?
Does this mean the mystery about the cause of autism is solved?
How are the cops going to know you have the 24 hour pass? ESP?
Hardly news.
Its the people walking around looking at fat people and not realizing: holy shit I'm one of them!
We are not cows. We don' t need bacteria to allow us to receive caloric benefit from the diet we choose.
Except on all the computers I have owned in the last 13 years. And on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqNt1dTkRg
Is there an "Assange" working for them that we can discredit with baseless ad-hominem attacks? So far the only entry in the site is a link to Gawker.
Do I have to be a religious nutcase to object to breeding human beings to be used for spare parts and then discarded as trash? /atheist
Roger that. I will never accept the breeding of human beings for the purpose of using them for spare parts.
Valmorification compete
Now I have the perfect tool to fine tune my propaganda and advertising!
Whats next, apple trademarking the letter i?
Are garage sales deemed a business too? How about selling your car? Will Philly get a cut if you trade your pb&j sandwich for a nutty bar at school?
http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-lrt2001.htm
The problem with rail is not their speed. I'd be perfectly happy with rail travel at 60 miles per hour. The true problem with rail is that people prefer to ride cars because they are more convenient. When the time is right this is what may happen:
say 12 years from now when gas becomes $10 a gallon...
This will price a lot of people of of their jobs (no more 60 mile commutes for a $12 an hour job).
Some industrious individuals get together and buy time on heavy rails which web the whole country already. They make train stations combined with communal car rental businesses. The cars they rent out are done so on an hour per hour basis for say $0.70 cents per hour. If you are on an 9 hour shift it will then cost you $6.3 per day to rent your temp car. Ride with a friend to cut it down in half. These cars are cheap little cars with low top speeds and limited range. They might even be electric because you don't need long ranges in a lot of areas. I'm thinking smart cars with wifi network fleet management. If these cars are being used 75% of a full day (from 2-3 shifts of workers) they will gross $10.8 a day. Each year they could bring in $2754 if used 5 days a week on average. If the smartcar cost $10,000 it would take 3.63 years to break even. If each car is driven 10 miles on average per shift per day with 75% utilization it would run about 40 miles per day. At 5 days a week each year the car would be driven 10200 miles. These things when properly taken care of should last then about 13-15 years, plenty long enough to make money on I think.
Say you live in Marion Ohio and want to commute to Powell Ohio (36 miles) for some kind of factory job there. Get in your beater car, drive it to the station get on the train for $4.5 bucks. Rent a car with a pal for $3.25. Your transportation costs will be not much more than $12.25 for the day. You save wear and tear on your beater car and you avoid the worst parts of traffic between home and work. if your beater car gets 26 miles to the gallon like mine then you don't have to spend $26.38 on gas for a savings of $14.13 in fuel alone
Heavy rails are already in place.
This plan wouldn't work with out super high fuel costs. But who knows how much longer our cartopia can last?
So it must be true!
"The new research suggests that the longer-than-expected period of petrification may have been linked to changes in the way a hot grits like mass of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun."
in asshole
But isn't it strange that we have 4000 pounds of steel moving a single 200 pound passenger around (most of the time)? 100 years from now they will laugh at this.
I thought the electronic toilet seat was out of production.
Look at some of these threads on digg or reddit. The top 5 posts might be vacant 1 line hoorahs with 40 positive votes for or against something while at the bottom of the page are posts with no votes that have a whole paragraph or more of carefully thought out prose. Sites like digg and reddit shun rational posters and promote shrill emotional voices. There is little of value to be gleaned from the comments there. At least on slashdot people can moderate posts with some kind of identification like insightful, funny, interesting, troll, or flamebait. Hell I've seen +2 troll posts that were actually pretty good stabs.
Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System isn't a peltier type device. An excerpt from the link: "The JTEC is an all solid-state engine that operates on the Ericsson cycle. Equivalent to Carnot, the Ericsson cycle offers the maximum theoretical efficiency available from an engine operating between two temperatures" Carnot like efficiency is pretty amazing for a solid state device. Hell for any device... Of course, even though it may be more efficient, it doesn't automatically make it more economical.
So all Obama has to do is announce the violence will end on a particular date and it is done. Make is so number one. Engage!