Pasadena, CA. This coming November 4th, California voters have the privilege of voting on Proposition 1A - increasing the debt of the state by $9,900,000,000 according to an article in the San Gabriel Valley News, October 12, 2008.
Steve Lawrence says that, "so far, no opposition group has surfaced to pay for a campaign against the proposition." No wonder. Why waste another $500,000 fighting against a propostition that was sponsored by "construction and engineering companies," on a bill that makes no economic sense. Hopefully voters will see through it and will be fiscally conservative this election as our nation bails out the mortgage industry. We should not have to bail out the transportation industry too.
To build an 800 mile high speed line from Anaheim to Sacramento makes sense IF there are sufficient paying passengers to make this project doable and financially viable. How many passengers have the need to commute from LA to Sacramento daily?
In Alaska they were building a bridge to no where. In California they want to build an expensive high speed transportation system to nowhere.
Also it is really important that we take a really good look at the type of system
we want to build. Another "on the track - on the grade" train that will zoom through pedestrian and automobile crossings and perhaps will no doubt increase the number of potential accidents and lawsuits. This doesn't make sense.
The article mentionsAT THE VERY END the actual cost of the program is
$45,000,000,000. AND THE REAL purpose of this proposition is to get the $950 million needed for CONVENTIONAL trains and perhaps to put in the emergency system that will help avoid collisions.
Why not just propose a propostion to borrow $950 million in bonds for
Conventional trains? Why put Californians in debt for $9.9 billions for a project that is doomed to go no where's except the drawing board?
Please - stop wasting taxpayor's money!
It's time to think outside the box and look to the future -and the future is an elevated magnetrically levitated transportation system.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Two Trains One Track? You Must Be Kidding!
The explosion of the Union Pacific freight train as it hit the Metrolink Passenger line last week in Chatsworth is a horrible reminder of the fact that our nation's rail system is operating on 19th century tracks and technology.
With all the billions of dollars that we are spending to bail out Wall Street, with $100 million we could have developed and optimized a transportation system that would eliminate on the ground crashes and accidents.
This shows that our officials have no vision for the future! Common sense is genious and today's leaders have no common sense.
The Magnetrain Worldwide Group has been developing the Vinson Magnetrain since 1984.
This system has been shown in San Francisco and to several major engineering firms. The government has seen this system as well, but yet, they elect to continue to pour research dollars and grants into projects that do not work or are not commercially feasible. They give millions of dollars to established engineering groups so that they can continue to pay their engineers and scientists while their innovations and their new technologies continue to prove unworkable for commercial use.
When will we in America get the picture right! The inventors are alive and well in their garages, in their back yards and in their home grown labs. They are making breakthroughs that will astound the most experienced scientists, but they get not funding and no attention at all.
Unless they are affiliated with a corporate entity they can expect zero funding for research and development.
A new office should be established in Washington called "Innovation." And rather than the government breathing down the backs of these inventors and stealing their inventions if it suits their purposes, we need to give them the credit, give them the ability to participate in the optimization of their technology and fund them 100%.
Most great inventions that the American inventor developed were finally produced overseas because no one in America would fund them.
It is really sad, when people like Warren Buffet who has the money to make a big difference in the lives of the American people would give the Gates Foundation, who has billions already, a huge grant, rather than establish a true entrepreneurship foundation for the inventors and small business men who have a dream that need only $50K or $100K to fulfill it.
I believe if we established a foundation like they did in Bangledesh, giving grants to people to go out and establish their business, when they are successful, they would repay the grant and continue to fund the foundation so others could do the same! We could make the ingenuity and innovation of America great once again!
The people who control the money have no vision. Their vision is only to make more money and destroy their competition.
Well, the competion is destroying themselves. And now the government is bailing them out.
If our government doesn't get a vision for the future, it is only a matter of time, when they become the drowned helping the drowning.
With all the billions of dollars that we are spending to bail out Wall Street, with $100 million we could have developed and optimized a transportation system that would eliminate on the ground crashes and accidents.
This shows that our officials have no vision for the future! Common sense is genious and today's leaders have no common sense.
The Magnetrain Worldwide Group has been developing the Vinson Magnetrain since 1984.
This system has been shown in San Francisco and to several major engineering firms. The government has seen this system as well, but yet, they elect to continue to pour research dollars and grants into projects that do not work or are not commercially feasible. They give millions of dollars to established engineering groups so that they can continue to pay their engineers and scientists while their innovations and their new technologies continue to prove unworkable for commercial use.
When will we in America get the picture right! The inventors are alive and well in their garages, in their back yards and in their home grown labs. They are making breakthroughs that will astound the most experienced scientists, but they get not funding and no attention at all.
Unless they are affiliated with a corporate entity they can expect zero funding for research and development.
A new office should be established in Washington called "Innovation." And rather than the government breathing down the backs of these inventors and stealing their inventions if it suits their purposes, we need to give them the credit, give them the ability to participate in the optimization of their technology and fund them 100%.
Most great inventions that the American inventor developed were finally produced overseas because no one in America would fund them.
It is really sad, when people like Warren Buffet who has the money to make a big difference in the lives of the American people would give the Gates Foundation, who has billions already, a huge grant, rather than establish a true entrepreneurship foundation for the inventors and small business men who have a dream that need only $50K or $100K to fulfill it.
I believe if we established a foundation like they did in Bangledesh, giving grants to people to go out and establish their business, when they are successful, they would repay the grant and continue to fund the foundation so others could do the same! We could make the ingenuity and innovation of America great once again!
The people who control the money have no vision. Their vision is only to make more money and destroy their competition.
Well, the competion is destroying themselves. And now the government is bailing them out.
If our government doesn't get a vision for the future, it is only a matter of time, when they become the drowned helping the drowning.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Jetson Age is Coming
I was watching the American Idol commercial in which they were in a Ford automobile being attacked by flying saucers. It looked real and awesome on the commercial. But, when they showed the filming it was plastic flying saucers on a stick with a string just like they used in the 1930's Flash Gordon series. Some things never change.
But, there is a new mode of travel that is coming soon - the age of the maglev.The Maglev train can be modified to be a maglev car or a maglev plane.The use of permanent magnets in transportation is just making it's entrance. Already manufacturers are realizing how much more economical it is to use permament magnets in the motors of our portable machines. It is lighter, replacing the heavy internal copper motor, with light weight magnets. So what is the problem?
Why can't we get the Jetsons up and flying? It's because the people don't know yet how feasible and possible this new technology is. And they don't realize how this one industry will bring millions of jobs to the United States! When the people are informed, they can then inform the politicans and private investors that this is a technology that are supporting and are anxiously awaiting!
It's time to visit our website: http://www.magnetrain.comAlso you might want to visit our energy site as well: http://www.unlimitedhydrogen.com
But, there is a new mode of travel that is coming soon - the age of the maglev.The Maglev train can be modified to be a maglev car or a maglev plane.The use of permanent magnets in transportation is just making it's entrance. Already manufacturers are realizing how much more economical it is to use permament magnets in the motors of our portable machines. It is lighter, replacing the heavy internal copper motor, with light weight magnets. So what is the problem?
Why can't we get the Jetsons up and flying? It's because the people don't know yet how feasible and possible this new technology is. And they don't realize how this one industry will bring millions of jobs to the United States! When the people are informed, they can then inform the politicans and private investors that this is a technology that are supporting and are anxiously awaiting!
It's time to visit our website: http://www.magnetrain.comAlso you might want to visit our energy site as well: http://www.unlimitedhydrogen.com
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