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EvacuatedTubeTransportTech.(et3)"SpaceTravelonEarth"(tm)

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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?: Yes

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:: CEO of et3.com Inc. 1999-present
Many various, including Unique Mobility in the 1980s
(BTW, energy is not "alternative", there are only many alternative sources, most from the sun. It is likely that other energy sources are yet undiscovered.)

What excites you about this campaign?: The status quo becoming receptive to innovation.

What do you want to do to help?: License and facilitate implementation of the patented transportation technology of Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (et3.com inc, a Florida company) to greatly accelerate the rate of achieving elements of the Pickens Plan that are consistent with the et3 vision.

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.

NOTE:
ETT IS NOT A SCALED UP VERSION OF PNEUMATIC TUBE TRANSPORT (PTT) COMMON AT BANK DRIVE-UP TELLERS

STUDY THIS FILE BEFORE CONCLUDING THAT ETT IS "TOO EXPENSIVE" -- IT COMPARES ETT TO A MAGLEV TRAIN
ETTvTR_pp.xls

MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE DETAILED TECHNICAL QUESTIONS THAT ARE ANSWERED IN THE PATENT DOCUMENT (just click the link to open)

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At 3:22pm on December 11, 2010, William Engwer said…: Daryl,

I apparently check my Pickens page even less frequently that you. In response to your question, my vehicle could be easily configured to fit in a 52" dia. tube, as you suggest. That would be an interesting world to live in. Hope we can make it happen. William Engwer

At 6:13pm on September 8, 2010, Daryl Oster said…: Trevor,
Thank you for your comment. We appear to agree that CNG is a marginal stop-gap to the peak oil issue at best. Synthetic and bio fuels will also have a role too. IMO, it is clear that the future of transportation powering belongs to renewable electricity (hydro-electric power the preferred, wind has marginal ROI, and PV solar has a long way to go except for remote locations where HE or wind is not feasible).

How is it that so many people miss seeing the bold note (7 lines up from the comment wall)?? The note says:
NOTE:
ETT IS NOT A SCALED UP VERSION OF PNEUMATIC TUBE TRANSPORT (PTT) COMMON AT BANK DRIVE-UP TELLERS.

ETT is NOT pneumatic -- there is NO AIR IN THE TUBES, so pneumatic logic circuits (as elegant as they were) would not work for ETT switching. Pneumatic tube transport systems (PTT) are energy intensive when scaled up for moving items larger than an invoice or bottle of pills. The reason is that for PTT the entire tube surface is subject to frictional forces. By contrast, ETT eliminates 99.9999% of frictional force.

If you take the time to investigate you will find that ETT is "figured out", and we have significant "financial and technological backing". Boon's shotgun approach may work to promulgate the marginal improvements of CNG for transport fuel (and wind for electricity). ET3 has been much more targeted and at some point in the near future we may use similar methods too.

Daryl Oster

At 1:49pm on September 8, 2010, Trevor TM Jones said…: Hi Darryl,

I am very familiar with vacuum tube transportation. Europe was rife with them when I was a boy in the 19 fifties. Some department stores were using them into the 70's to send the paperwork up to accounting from the till and very rapidly back with an efficient pneumatic whoosh. I've even built pneumatic logic circuits.

The only reason the this tech is not widely used is that current economics have not received sufficient financial and technological backing. For any new tech you have get a good chunk of it figured out and then get the message out as Boone is doing. His problem tho is that CNG lacks the energy density to usurp the roles of the common liquid fuels. It all about the inhererent economics properties of the fuel and related systems.

I think that Synfuels will eventually become the dominant technology to make transportation fuels.

Trevor Jones

At 11:58am on August 23, 2010, William Engwer said…: Daryl, thanks for the interest in my vehicle project. The first prototype is set up to run a CNG converted 600cc liquid cooled Kawasaki. I'm also looking at a 1 litre Suzuki. The vehicle was designed from the start to be relatively easily reconfigured to utilize a variety of energy sources. Here's a direct link to a more in-depth abstract of the project.
http://contest.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/871

I've been a fan of the ETT concept for some time. It's conceivably a much more efficient way to utilize energy for surface transportation than the alternatives. I have extensive experience in developing composite material applications, and specialize in simplifying production methods for cost control. I have a few ideas about implementing rapid production techniques for your tubes and vehicles. I'll be reading your patent information this week. Good luck with this, William Engwer

At 11:47am on January 30, 2009, Michael Shawn Kendall said…: Daryl, WOW, that is some great stuff and would be a prime candidate obviously for relieving congested domestic flights that rely on jet fuel. I believe this is exactly what was mentioned in my FAX to Congressman Pelosi with the Energy-T category of the "Energy Independence US Treasury Bonds". Please, I need help building my friends data contacts on my page, contacting representatives with the proposal to make it a reality, and alot of mentoring. I'm new to this and a bit of a spectator when surrounded by groups like yours. My most humblest admiration.
V/r,
Mike

At 10:09pm on January 13, 2009, Mark J Warren said…: I like your tech.

Mark

At 9:59pm on January 2, 2009, Wayne J.R. Bowser, LEED AP said…: Daryl,
I must have you on our Radio Show sometime.
Listen in tomorrow to an idea of our format and let's keep in touch.

Please check out my page to get listenner and call-in info.

At 8:28pm on December 30, 2008, Rajaram Bojji said…: Good concept- May I suggest to take the total energy audit for, keeping and maintaining the vacuum , maintenance of airlocks and then the linear motors as as well as the maglev capital costs: the friction per se to avoid is fine but rail-wheel provides the best option as per European Conf papers (UIC) . Then the capacity - how much cargo and how many people can we transport? What could be the capital cost for 1000 mile route and what will be the recurring costs? Prima facie the results may be estimated and analyzed for investors to get interested. The financial viability is what the business will look for and the total energy consumption and how much we conserve will be factors for the governments to get interested. Capital cost indirectly quantifies the energy component that has gone into creating the system and in my reckoning, the SIemens' maglev demonstrates the exorbitant capital cost for the guidance system. The vacuum helps in cutting down the air resistance which is substantial at very high speeds but maintenance of vacuum costs energy. generally whenever you have to make things which do not exist naturally , we have to fight the nature and that costs in energy terms. So long as we are in flow with nature we conserve.

Happy New year 2009 to you, Sir- good thinking and keep at it please.

At 2:28pm on December 30, 2008, Fred Mars said…: Love it! It is an idea that is feasible and viable. I can envision these tubes alongside interstates, so little or no additional property would displace farms, homes, or businesses.

I have a very unique motor that can run on compressed air with nearly a 1:1 energy ratio. Contact me is you are interested in more information.

At 7:26pm on November 14, 2008, Clynton said…: Pretty cool man. The product looks cool.

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