The Evacuated Tube Transport Technology Network

 We are living extraordinary times.  We are part of a new worldwide generation attempting to evaluate and convert data into meaningful information

 People all over the earth are watching, listening, reading, writing and drawing far more than any past time known to man.  The Internet Industry has advanced extraordinarily fast into this “virtual world” to not only offer telephonic communication in the hand, but also the ability to visually, graphically and numerically to connect with computer proliferation and vast data storage devices.

 The urban design of habitation in the “reality world” is the most ignored area in our present existence on earth.  Don’t we all aggregate inside our separate fields of interest to build villages, towns and cities together? Compare the amounts of money that is given to research and development only in the fields of space or military endeavors. It is clear that we will immediately recognize that there is an imbalance in the priorities of government spending let alone understanding of financing of futures.

 Where should we place different priorities in the creation of eco-cities?  My opinion is that we should focus on our infrastructure spending. There are "Four Freedoms — Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. These four Freedoms were renewed in the 1944 call for an Economic Bill of Rights".

 In my mind most rights exclude a fifth Freedom - that of movement. In humanities collective search for survivability if viewed only from what one observes with the microscope into the minuteness of the atom or with the telescope seeing further into the galaxies, there is one common fact - movement is evident in all things observed. Without mobility there is no life. Mobility is an essential ingredient of "rights" where all citizens may do so in common public spaces and places. These are known as “rights of way” corridors on land, on or under water, or in airspace using our technological means for the flows of utilities and for traveling around this planet.

Infrastructure supports this "right" of mobility passage. We have failed in our efforts to build a VISIONARY movement system that would redeem America’s purpose and promise and champion the needs and aspirations of all working people.

Please consider my call to arms.  We can and must cultivate a new mobility narrative for America, along with a range of policy options, which will encourage, if not drive, corporate action first toward political action in favor of progressively extending and deepening freedom, equality, and democracy. Why should this become paramount in our collective thinking? Simply because a safe and better new infrastructure must support us in order to get people and goods safely from point to point, more swiftly using less energy in less time.

 Plainly the principle ignored is that SPACES IN SERVICE CONNECTS TO SPACES SERVED.  These movement service “rights of way” allow us to serve “end places.” These “end places” are the enclosed structural volumes we use night and day in our villages, towns and cities. The spaces harbor homes, commerce and industry. There is also a relationship between these enclosed structures we build to cede to “rights of passage” and what we call “open spaces”. Terra spaces such as agricultural and the mining of material resources are found in earthly environments. Whereas oceanic spaces allow for fishing and the transportation of goods worldwide from port to port are found in the aqua environment. Atmospheric spaces allow flight to and from global airport destinations.

 If one acknowledges these principles how do they impact our concepts of village, town and city building? The primary relationship is how to provide adequate safe energy for mobility to occur profitably. The ET3 transportation application of this energy must be applied to the capability of moving people and goods first. Thereafter how does one integrate such ingress and egress into the building of places that respect clean air, clean water and clean organic sustenance? We must redefine mobility and settlement patterns of diversity accomplishment with better consistency. Forcing population shifts toward concentrating urbanization in large cities should rather be placed in smaller city concentrations to better balance with the geographic environment.

 We have been collecting data regarding our status quo about population growth and urban change. These metrics in a model will only become a valuable essence for urban design integration towards habitation concepts when we use them to relate to the daily energy input to waste output requirements of each human being. Our current pattern of data usage is insufficient when we realize the energy life cycle requirements for our habitation, whether they include transportation or structures. For example we have discovered that a relationship exists between the “footprint” of a typical low-density mile square city requires six (6) square miles of agriculture and fifteen (15) square miles of forest.

 There are marked and distinctive relationships that can be drawn in many other critical elements to get closer to the meanings of “green” or “sustainable.” The best definition quote so far for sustainability“ is that the rate at which the earth’s abundant resource use does not imbalance the rate of replenishment” by Daryl Oster. Or sustainability “describes practices through which the global economy can grow without creating a fatal drain on resources.” This is still a long way from becoming a standard way of doing business.  Whereas “green” might be defined as “the energy used to measure the resources drawn from Nature through conversion to placement for utilization for a timed duration.”

 The challenge confronting us building new infrastructure to serve habitats are numerous. Creating authenticity for new transportation and urban design for villages, towns and cities must project a clear understanding of what astronauts demand when projected to travel via a space station circumventing the earth. This action not only tests the depth of our technological knowledge but also having to return to mother earth for replenishment is sobering and indelible thought. To break this umbilical cord is the challenge that confronts us building communities on terra/aqua.

 Until we together awaken to a renewed business effort toward building self-sustaining villages, towns and cities interlaced with a new form of transportation for both our Terra and Aqua environments, we will never travel into space as an exploratory community. It is for us to prove this possibility in the context of the abundant natural environments in which we are slowly destroying ourselves by constructing non self-sustaining villages, towns and cities.

 In order build sustainable villages, towns and cities we must adopt a new transportation system such as ET3 to bridge out of our demise in order to travel faster from point to point more swiftly utilizing energy consumption efficiently with a support infrastructure that is less costly per mile. The only way to truly go forward into proper village, town and city urban design is the eco-city supported by such an infrastructure. This is the ultimate adventure for us on earth and then with this knowledge as a human community we can then finally explore and travel into outer space.

 We must abandon our cubicles; escape our status quo earthbound short-term financial strategies. We are most capable and intelligent enough to bring together the necessary interdisciplinary team of people to construct better environments with new materials and means for ourselves and should not be as presently practiced limited to “silo” research in the sciences, but rather make applications from these findings that are useful for our future lives in cohabitation together on this planet.

 The USA needs to standout again as a “want be free nation” that recreates itself into a refuge where citizenry is rooted in sincerity, integrity and good intent to create a better place that overcomes earthquakes, tsunamis, weather changing and other celestial phenomena events.

 America needs not to be condemned with "followship" technologies adopted by present and past arising nations by regaining“leadership” status once more. New transportation as passage to the future of man is the substance for job creation, reurbanization, manufacturing, self financing and structuring of sustainable City habitats. 

 Wake-up America.

SALUTATIONS
Graham Kaye-Eddie

M.U.D. 1/13/2010