The Future of Energy and Transportation?
Here’s something I thought readers would enjoy: a video about energy and transportation concepts of the future. A friend sent me this a minute ago and asked for my comment, which is as follows: there is nothing theoretically impossible about any of this, but none of the concepts has any practicality as far as I can see, and the figures quoted are enormously exaggerated.
To be fair, I suppose I can see a day in the distant future where the first idea (extremely high-speed public transportation) could happen, though it’s hard to imagine how a society in our current condition could get to a point at which it could possibly afford such a system.
Humm. Cost is an issue perhaps, but the first presentation from ET3 is cheaper than an equal mile of highway and it doesn’t have the footprint 😉 that concrete does so I’m not sure how you figure cost…?
I have a saying that I picked up from a client: “It’s always cheap until you build it.”
On top of that, it’s powered with extreme differences in air pressure? How’s that achieved? At what efficiency?
Missing link?