The Evacuated Tube Transport Technology Network

The most effective way of satisfying our current concerns in “sustainability” is to acknowledge a quote by Daryl Oster  “The solution to pollution is dilution”.  Whereas “green” is the energy measured of the resources drawn from Nature through conversion to placement for utilization over a timed duration, otherwise known as “life-cycle costs”.

 We are in a global time of visual stimulus offered by the internet, without recognizing the time factor required to bring the world’s citizens into an immediate reality of village, town and city environment creation.

 Capital investments are not the same as operation and maintenance factors for the variety of land based infrastructures we build and use together. The focus on a singular mobility technology and infrastructure that supports the large-scale deployment of"super conducting linear magnetic lines affording levitation of a capsule in a vacuum"is the one that will revive and bind future world cultures together. All the involved countries will proportionately bear the cost, thus bringing the system to fruition - rapidly.

 ET3 has begun a credible and highly experienced team of licensees to help shape the project portfolio, and it will be very interesting to see where they go with this in evolving an enormous challenge.

 The wave of interdisciplinary design for villages, towns and cities is on the edge of an attitude change. Co-operation across a variety of disciplines is becoming a trend in health and other related issues yet is far behind in application of how to balance our urban design footprint with our natural resources. Strange that we all have individual “niches” that we scratch for individual survival when we cannot penetrate a collective collaboration in city building together.

 We are all involved as earthly citizens of this planet drawing from Natures abundant gifts for our breathing, drinking, and eating that is forged toward supplying energy for our daily mobility. It takes the electronic stimulated brain and the organic body to accomplish such actions. Is it not this mobility that unites us all in city building? Whether we walk on pathways together; drive the vehicular robots on roadways and “freeways”; fly in a pressurized tube in our skyways or float in a hotel cruise boat on our ocean ways, we all participate in the mobility of getting to places.

 The critical role of our somewhat involuntary individual actions offsets collective actions that have become harmful to our survival on this blue planet. Solutions such as carbon credits in sustaining the transportation infrastructure in America may support a financial carrot but does not integrate the kernel of the urban design core. The evaluation of policy making with graphic interpretation and resulting cost benefits are still undefined.

The devil is in the details of how new urban design projects are qualified, quantified, verified and sustained over time, but conceptually this comprehensive "ecosystems services" approach to urban design seems the right way to go for our stay as stewards of Natures resources.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)

Graham Kaye-Eddie

M.U.D.             2/3/2011