WHY: Transportation is the master key to survival. A new mode of transportation (independent of diminishing fossil energy) is necessary to achieving an environmentally sustainable yet thriving economy in an urbanized world.
WHAT: ET3™ is literally ‘Space Travel on Earth,’ a global transportation system that is silent, low cost, fast, secure, safe, and environmentally friendly.
HOW: ET3 utilizes automobile sized capsules weighting 400lb empty that carry 6 persons or 800 lbs of cargo. The magnetically levitated capsules operate in two-way networks of 5′ diameter tubes. Air is permanently removed from the sealed tubes to eliminate drag force. The use of portal airlocks allows capsule transfers without admitting air. The pressurized capsules are accelerated by linear electric motors; then they merge into the flow of capsules where they coast without using significant additional power. The system is automated. Full speed passive switching enables non-stop operation and enroute destination changes. Upon switching to an off-line portal access branch, the capsules decelerate with a linear generator that recovers acceleration energy.
VALUES: ET3 requires 1/30th of the materials of high speed rail, so construction costs a tenth as much. A pair of ET3 tubes at 350mph can exceed the capacity of a 40-lane freeway at half the cost of 4 lanes. ET3 capacity scales with design velocity. ET3 can provide 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric cars or trains, yet operates at 400mph domestic, to 4000mph international.
ET3 can also transport energy. ET3 eliminates risk of human error, mechanical failure, weather risks, and errant vehicles (since ET3 is automated, and the travel path is isolated).
THE COMPANY ET3: is the industry leader in all phases of ET3 technology. The company uses an open consortium business model to share information resulting in cooperative benefits.
Readiness: Billions of dollars worth of technology, hardware, production capacity and materials necessary to implement ET3 already exist.
Structure: The ET3 company (consortium model) shares it's patented IP with others by granting non-exclusive licenses to participants who agree to use the technology in a reciprocal manner with the company and other licensees.
Goal: The consortium model provides a market to maximize the profit potential for licensees and investors by leveraging existing talent and assets to: implement, manage and improve ET3 technology; thereby creating huge new markets for existing capacities.
HISTORY:
1910 Robert Goddard designed rockets and airless tube travel systems.
1970s Swissmetro and Rand studies of maglev trains in reduced pressure tunnels.
1985 Daryl Oster conceived ET3.
1997 company formed in Florida.
1999 First patent (US-5,950,543).
2002 &2005 ETT-HTSM technology exchange at SWJTU in China.
2005 –2011 ET3 consortium grows to 120 individuals, companies, and institutions in 9 countries.
2011 ET3 wins DaVinci Institute commercial product of the year award (NO CASH AWARD, the $500 value membership prize offset by $510 entry fees for no monetary gain).
FUTURE:
2yrs- a 3 mile demo at 375mph.
5yrs- 300 mile system connecting major cities.
10yrs- national networks.
20yrs- global ET3 network displacing up to 90% of global transportation.
At a time when the Catholic Church is grappling with secrecy versus the truth in dealing with the recurring global scandals of child molestation, and also grappling with theological truth versus scientific truth, this book could not be more timely.
If all of the very latest insights and innovations could be jumbled up in a blender with the history of civilization, this is what would come out once distilled to the essence.
The book strikes me as the answer to every Sunday crossword puzzle every invented, revealing the solutions to each one at a time in a manner seems totally perfect.
Potentially a paradigm / mind-set / game changer of a book.
This is an important search and made multiple times. Whoever is thinking about this, consider getting in touch with Robert Steele, this is something he is thinking about right now, defining the future of Public Administration transformed into Public Governance and no longer government-centric.
…the IMF is now officially calling for an Iceland style solution (bust the banks and arrest corrupt bankers and politicians who accepted their bribes).
Now the most brainwashed people in the West are failing to explain the contradictions of their so-called leaders.
Neil Keenan’s liens… are now set to be refiled as early as this Friday… [they] have way more evidence backing them than the original Keenan lawsuit ever did…
Keenan says he has the backing of the pentagon and most of the US law enforcement establishment as well as Interpol.
The Japanese underworld and all major Yakuza gangs have now agreed to stop working for the cabal and take action against their puppets.
Afghanistan: Special comment: This week Coalition forces commander General Allen said that only ten of Afghanistan's now 405 districts, in 34 provinces, are responsible for half of the violence in Afghanistan.
They are Sangin, Nowzad, Musa Qala, Kajaki, Nad e Ali, Nahr e Sarraj in Sangin Province plus Pol-e-Alam in Lowgar Province and Maiwand, Panjwai and Zherai in Kandahar Province.
Allen's list is not a metric of progress. For several years NightWatch published highly detailed evaluations of the insurgency, district by district and below. Four years ago, the only district that would not have been included in a similar list of the worst districts in Afghanistan is Pol-el-Alam in Lowgar Province. Districts in Ghazni, Paktia and Paktika Provinces would have been included.
Allen's list is an indictment of a failed policy and failed military strategy. Nothing has changed in four or more years. Nothing the US has done has reduced the volatility of the 12 or 13 Pashtun provinces in southern Afghanistan and the dozen or so districts that formed the heart of the insurgency.
UN surveys from 20 or more years ago reported that Pashtuns had deep and historic links to Pakistan and Iran. There were no jobs in Afghanistan so most Afghan men worked in adjacent countries. In the face of adversity, the men left to finda work and to return after conditions improved. This is information is easily accessible on the Internet.
It means people in border regions had long established “rat lines” leading outside Helmand, Kandahar, Lowgar and all the other border provinces. When US or UK forces moved in, the anti-government and anti-foreign Pashtuns moved on the rat lines to friends and family outside the areas of the US or UK surge. Now they have returned, after the western surge forces left. This is how Afghans have survived for centuries, whether the enemy was lack of rain or foreign invaders.
Afghanistan, as a land-locked country, is a component of a multi-national economic and social system, with southern and northern regions demarcated by the Hindu Kush. No war can be won in Afghanistan without winning it in Pakistan, in eastern Iran, and the southern reaches of the “Stans.” Alexander the Great apparently understood that better than all subsequent western generals who tried.
It is trite to say big things are happening in the Middle East: The biggest, IMO, may turn out to be that Israel has overplayed its hand by hysterically fomenting the Iranian crisis. There are incipient signs suggesting that Netanyahu's smarmy efforts to manipulate American presidential politics to Israel's advantage and to the detriment of the United States threaten to blow back on Israel [e.g., see note 1]. The United States is in no position to be suckered into yet another war against an Islamic country (this time one with a population of almost 80 million), particularly a war manifestly of Israel's choosing. The grand-strategic role of Turkey (also and Islamic country with a population almost 80 million) is changing and becoming more assertive and independent. Paradoxically, the position of Iran may be strengthened by nuclear-armed Israel's hysterical rantings, especially if (when?) Israel backs down, but also if Israel launched what will almost certainly be an inconclusive pre-emptive attack, and when the immorality of unjust — and ultimately ineffective — sanctions being levied on Iran, largely in an effort to placate Israel, become more self evident. The civil war in Syria threatens to spillover into Lebanon, become sectarian, and might even evolve into a larger Sunni-Shi'a confrontation. Kurdish nationalism is on the rise, threatening the territorial integrity of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria [informative report here]. And of course, Iraq and Afghanistan are both a shambles, each now a symbol of America's failed imperialistic adventurism.
And then there is Egypt, yet another Islamic country with a population of almost 80 million), which has been off the US scope recently. Attached below is a blow by blow analysis by Esam Al-Alminof the largely unappreciated but momentous political changes that have taken place in Egypt in the eight months — changes that will not only affect the people of Egypt but, as Al-Almin suggests toward the end of his higly informative essay, could greatly augment the shifting balance of power in the entire Middle East, particularly among the big three — Egypt, Iran, and Turkey, which have a combined population of more than 230 million people.
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[1] Two recent examples: Romney's ass-kissing trip to Israel generated no traction domestically. According to Israeli new reports (here), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Also, General Martin Dempsey slapped down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for orchestrating the national hysteria surrounding the possibility of an attack in Iran. According to YNet News, Israel's largest news outlet, the United States, in effect, …”slammed Israel's head against the wall and said: ‘Shut up. Stop babbling about Iran. Without us there is not much you can do, and don't assume for a second that we are dancing to your tune. You shouldn't do anything stupid, and stop driving the entire world crazy.'”
