Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) "Space Travel on Earth" (tm)

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The Pickens Plan to eliminate reliance on oil will be greatly enhanced by this patented transportation technology that can achieve 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric trains or cars.

Website: http://www.et3.com
Location: Crystal River, Florida, USA, Earth
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Latest Activity: Mar 28, 2011

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT)

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT)
A patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric.

Air is permanently removed from 2 tubes along a travel route (two-way). Pressurized car sized passenger capsules travel in the tubes on frictionless maglev. Airlocks at stations allow transfer without admitting air. Linear electric motors accelerate the capsules, then they coast through the vacuum most of the trip using no power. Energy is recovered when they stop.

Speed in initial ETT systems is 350 mph for in state trips, and will be developed to 4,000 mph for international travel that will take you from NYC to Beijing in 2 hours at a tenth the cost of airfare. ETT is networked as are freeways. ETT capsules (hauling up to 6 people or 3 pallets of cargo) are automatically routed non-stop between “off-line” stations that are disbursed according to demand, so ETT has potential to eventually serve homes.

ETT capsules weigh only 400 lbs, yet like a SUV, haul 800lbs of people or cargo. A twentieth as much guideway material is required to support ETT capsules than to support locomotives. Material savings, and use of automated pipeline production, drops cost to less than a tenth the cost of High Speed Rail, or a fourth the cost of a freeway. With automated passive switching, a single 350mph ETT tube can exceed 16 lanes freeway capacity, further economizing.

Collectively companies have invested billions developing ETT; (although most are not aware of it yet); for instance, many companies produce pipelines (tubes), vacuum pumps, and electronics to automate it all. Everything exists to start building ETT now. ETT is being implemented in Asia; we can wait and buy ETT from others; OR we can leverage our superior capacities and be first to market.

The ETT Patent is assigned to et3.com Inc., an open consortium. An inclusive license agreement offers any entity incentives to participate in ETT implementation using their “off-the-shelf” assets (materials, parts, technologies, skills, labor, and capacities). For information contact: Daryl Oster, et3@et3.com , POB 1423, Crystal River FL 34423-1423, (352)257-1310, www.et3.com
(c) 2008 all rights reserved. ETT, et3, "space travel on earth" and the et3 logo are trademarks and service marks of et3.com Inc.

Discussion Forum

ETT Vs. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) 1 Reply

Started by Edgar. Last reply by Daryl Oster Jul 27, 2010.

ETT Q&A 49 Replies

Started by Daryl Oster. Last reply by Daryl Oster Mar 19, 2010.

ETT V TR

Started by Daryl Oster Aug 8, 2008.

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Comment by ApprenticeMentor Vinbeazel on August 4, 2008 at 2:10pm: I have been active in wind and power education for seven years, including the three years that I spent on drilling rigs when there was little future for wind energy career development in our region of eastern Kern county...

I would be glad to help promote your proposals on my radio shows. The schedule for EnergyTalk LIVE is posted at AlternativeEnergy.com and my shows are on Tuesdays. The call-in number is 347-838-8999 and you can set reminders at BlogTalkRadio.com/AlternativeEnergyCom

I will be posting the shows as regular events on the Pickens site and all of our Experts LIVE shows are recorded and archived at BTR. We offer this as an educational tool to any one from the energy discussion boards and especially the Pickens Groups' Organizers.
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Comment by Dr. Norman LaFave on August 4, 2008 at 2:06pm: Love great infrastructure ideas...One are that may have the biggest impact of all.

Comment by m doty on July 29, 2008 at 2:37am: Cool idea! The book (but not the movie) "Logan's Run" and a made-for-tv movie from the early 70's, "Genesis II" had evacuated tube transports. There was also a puppet sci-fi series in the early sixties which had personal transport capsules running around a city in clear tubes.

Comment by Daryl Oster on July 28, 2008 at 1:54am: Ty and James, the answers to your questions are posted in the Q&A discussion (see link above).

Comment by James Pilcher on July 27, 2008 at 4:13am: Hi Daryl,

What are the environmental difficulties with ETT? How do seismic conditions affect the cost ratios? What are the political considerations blocking the path?

I am a contractor and live in California. From the information I have seen and read the idea has potential, but in this state the first two question will kill anything. The third is trouble everywhere.

The seismic considerations have become major issues since the Loma Prieta and Northridge quakes here. I have built modest single story homes that have required massive pier and foundation structures. I sometimes wonder if I am building a house or the Hoover Dam. Pray that some endangered insect or wetland is not in your path.

If you want to see the difficulties you would face here read about the history of BART. Bay Area Rapid Transit, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

If/when you are ready to go forward here I would love to see the plans and submit a bid, but you can't pay me enough to want to deal with all of the political structures involved. This is the place where the first $10 billion of a $20 billion project is spent just getting approvals and permits. I would want the first couple million up front for my life insurance policy because I know it would cause me to burst a blood vessel, Make sure yours is fully vested.

Interested yet Cynical,

Jim

Comment by Ty on July 24, 2008 at 11:02am: Hello Daryl and to all,
I currently am working for Edwards pumps on vacuum systems as an electrician. These systems are quite simple electricity wise but on the mechanical end, the bigger the pump the more complex they become. I would like to know what your vacuum ratio is per distance? Are we talking station to station or tube section to tube section? Also, what are your emergency egress points like? Are they easily accessible and will they interfere with the system station to station or by section of tube? Many questions, what I really need, what the public would really need is a 3D model with all the bells and whistles included.
Thank you for your time.