THE NEW MANHATTAN PROJECT – for NEW CARS and SPACE
PROBLEM: We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis in this nation’s history. The obvious solution is to stimulate Industry and Commerce in such a way that the Taxpayers get more BANG FOR THEIR BUCKS and end up with a NEW STRONGER Industrial base and a new infrastructure based on the Knowledge Industry combined with the Industrial base that will keep America Competitive in the Global Marketplace for decades.
SOLUTION: A Manhattan Style Project that will DELIVER all of the ABOVE and MORE.
Based on the shared principle that Transportation, the movement of people and goods on the Nation’s Highways is the backbone of our economy and should therefore be modernized.
BY REDISIGNING the DIAMOND LANES on our FREEWAYS with ELECTRIC CHARGING SYSTEMS, either overhead or underground – FULLY ELECTRIC CARS and TRUCKS can travel UNLIMITED distances around the country without need for batteries re-charging or gasoline.
I believe that MagLev represents the newest in a long list of Technological Breakthroughs made in the last century that holds the most promise to accomplish all of this and more.
In the NEXT SERIES of Drawings you see how I have taken the best part of MagLev and adapted it to today’s CARS and TRUCKS. By eliminating the NEED to RAISE the vehicle OFF the GROUND, we make MagLev more practical and less expensive to implement. Yet the basic magnetic principles that Opposite Poles Attract and Like Poles REPEL remain the MAIN CURRENT of our investigation.
MagLev without the expensive Trains and Rails
REINVENTING THE WHEEL: New Wheels are designed that use Rare Earth Magnets on opposite sides of the wheels. Wheels are propelled Distance D along MagLev Roadway R
AS the Wheels of the vehicle move down the MagLev Roadway, the MagLev System adjusts the Polarity in the Roadway to BOTH ATTRACT and REPEL opposing sides of the Wheel, thus producing PROPULSION, without the need of any energy coming from the vehicle itself.
Attraction and Repulsion of opposite sides of the Wheel
The Attraction of the leading edge of the Wheel has propelled the vehicle ONE HALF ROTATION down the ROAD R thus lining up the OPPOSITE EDGE of the WHEEL which is then in place to be ATTRACTED by the next OPPOSITE POLE in the Roadway. The lower EDGE is REPELLED by the TRAILING POLE in the Roadway.
So far, the vehicle has moved down the roadway ONE DIAMETER distance D of the WHEEL moved down MagLev Roadway R.
One Full Rotation Later, we've traveled a Distance
All Electric Vehicles wheels will be constructed to standardized measurements to ensure multiple vehicle propulsion will work correctly.
In this Position the Wheel has rotated ONE FULL ROTATION and has moved TWO FULL DIAMETER’S DISTANCE D down the roadway R with no assist from the Motor in the Vehicle or having to take any charge from the Batteries.
IN FACT, the BATTERIES will CHARGE will driving down the Electrified Roadways through the use of Ultra-Super-Capacitors which have the advantage of being able to TRANSMIT a large voltage charge within a fraction of a second.
Ultra Super Capacitors are placed in the roadway at sufficient Intervals to CHARGE the BATTERIES of the Vehicles passing above or BELOW. Thus, when a vehicle leaves the ELECTRIFIED FREEWAY SYSTEM, it always has a fully charged battery to take it to its final destination.
This on the move recharging can be accomplished several different ways. One possibility is to send the charge up through the wheel as it passes. Another way is to use a shunt that dangles from the vehicles. Another method is to use a pole that reaches overhead wires and the best approach is to use INDUCTION methods that deliver the charge through the roadway with no moving parts.
A necessary part of this model is the increased need for Electricity as more and more Electric Vehicles are purchased and enter the system. A Solar PANEL System of NEW THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY, or SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY or the current technology Solar Panels are installed above the FREEWAYS to generate the electrical requirements of millions of cars. There is ENOUGH SOLAR ENERGY falling on the FREEWAYS of this nation in ONE HOUR to POWER THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FOR ONE MONTH, if we could gather it all.
At night, or during inclement weather, Energy is produced by Wind, Nuclear, Biofuels or other Renewables while demand that exceeds this capacity can be met with conventional Oil Powered Plants, but at much reduced levels. The goal would be to reduce fossil fuel electricity to ZERO within a few years.
SOLAR ENERGY is collected alongside the ROADWAY so that THE TRANSMISSION DISTANCE is at a MINIMUM, thereby reducing loss of power over transmission lines to nearly ZERO.
RECENT Breakthroughs in High Temperature SUPERCONDUCTIVITY allow the Power Generated to be moved at almost 100% delivery to the SUPER-Capacitors placed at intervals along the roadway that Charge Batteries of the vehicles as they MOVE along the ELECTRIFITED ROADWAYS.
THE FULLY ELECTRIC CAR of the FUTURE, therefore is very INEXPENSIVE and CHEAP to PRODUCE. Only minor IMPROVEMENTS in the vehicles themselves are necessary from time to time, thus the complete switchover of AUTO PRODUCTION to meet NEW MODEL YEARS.is a thing of the past, saving the nation many thousands of GIGA-WATTS in creating built-in obsolescence.
Regular Improvements in Technology is centered along the ROADWAY ALLOWING for MORE AND MORE EFFICIENCIES in Electricity COLLECTION and DISTRIBUTION to the nation’s fleet of vehicles which can remain virtually unchanged for centuries.
Eventually as demand increases, ALL LANES of the ROADWAY are adapted as such and further increases in vehicle density is met by more efficiencies of scale.
One of the side advantages of this system is the DUAL MODE of TRANSPORTATION that has become a requirement of American Roads. BOTH CARS and TRUCKS can be manufactured to these MagLev Standards.
TODAY and into the FUTURE MOST of the miles required by most drivers of TRUCKS and PASSENGER CARS are FREEWAY MILES, therefore making the FREEWAYS the batteries and the propulsion system is the best approach.
ALLOWING vehicles to be charged as they drive means that OFF FREEWAY MILES are stretched as well. Eventually, over time, however, all roads in the cities and towns are converted to this new MagLev system so that gradually batteries are needed less and less while they probably also undergo evolutionary changes and improvements.
THIS IS ONLY A STARTING POINT for our PROJECT
I BELIEVE there are 4 TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS that will BLEND to deliver our FINAL MODEL and these are like . . .
A 4 LAYER CAKE
Solar, MagLev, Ultracapacitors, and SuperConductivity
The figure above is a Schematic of the SYSTEM as it is installed in the final version.
1. Solar Power, especially new Thin Film and Nano Cell Photo Voltaic Power, possibly augmented by IBM’s new Optical Concentrators, would be installed above the Electrified Diamond Lanes in sufficient quantity to power the transportation Grid. As more of this material is installed, surplus can also be used to power nearby homes and businesses. Nighttime use is supplied by conventional means until storage technology improves to the point where we no longer need conventional power.
2. High Temperature SuperConductivity is used to transmit power along the Roadway from the Solar Panels to the Conductor Stations, presenting almost ZERO ENERGY LOSS.
3. Ultra-Capacitors are used to store the energy and then disperse it to the 4th element in the system, MagLev or a combination of other new technologies of electric propulsion systems conceived in the Project.
4. MagLev Linear Motor used in the Roadway’s surface to propel the CARS AND TRUCKS IN DUAL MODE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS adapted to the MagLev technology of the future. MagLev Trains AND PLANES may also be developed to augment personal vehicles. New Missile Defense Systems, much more we can’t even conceive of yet may also be found.
This paper is only the latest of my individual thinking on the subject. It assumes that prior art has been reviewed.
AND – IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING the starting point of a developing model that I am CONFIDENT can and MUST be achieved.
IF ONE PERSON can think this problem to this point, just IMAGINE what a COALITION of the country’s TOP SCIENTISTS and ENGINEERS could create given the leadership, the funding and the challenge.
From Previous Blogs, you also know that we also can have a TRANSITION HYBRID ELECTRIC CAR BUILT AND DELIVERED by the US Automakers tomorrow if they wanted to WHILE WE WAIT for the FINAL VERSION of FULLY ELECTRIC CARS and TRUCKS.
AND, if you rearrange my 4 Layer cake of New Technology you get a futuristic way to REACH THE STARS. Nasa MUST be part of the New Manhattan Project so that any offshoots we develop in MagLev can be used for Space Travel as well as the AIRLINE INDUSTRY.
Using MagLev for Space Travel
ANNOUNCING THE BOEING STS-747
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Sen. Harry Reid who is currently working on THE BUDGET for the NEW OBAMA ECONOMIC Stimulus Package. WIthout a MANHATTAN PROJECT TO FIX THE BASIC PROBLEM – ENERGY DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL – THIS WILL BE JUST THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD.
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