As greedy state governments scramble to get a piece of the High Speed Transportation "pie in the sky" from Washington DC in the form of billion dollar grants, and local officials grab a hold of any thing on wheels that moves tons at a time, we can't help but wonder when is America going to get it right?
After visiting Asia and riding on their high speed trains, our 19th century antiquated choo-choo trains chugging at the speeds of 1950 automobiles on the highways - are a laughing sight to any Asian visitor who now has the privilege on riding on bullet trains, maglevs and visiting the most modern and newest of developments in Macau, China of all places - the Chinese Las Vegas!
No one wants to ride on a train that is as fast as a speeding automobile. No one is going to pay for an old system on new tracks that costs billions of dollars and will carry about 1/10th of passenger capacity due to lack of ridership!
They are calling the project in California, "THE TRAIN TO NO WHERES."
Until Americans get the picture and see what Washington is doing to squeeze out the last vestiage of creativity and innovation from the American inventor, as usual, all jobs and new technology will be created overseas and then imported to America, the big fat consumer who now cannot afford to spend like before. So they will export to up and rising oil based revenue economies that are booming - the Middle East, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
There are no trains in existence today or on the drawing table that can meet all the requirements for funding of a new high speed transportation system - except the MAGNETRAIN. The MAGNETRAIN is the only system that can go over 250 mph and uses no energy from the grid for power!
Impossible? Was it impossible for man to land on the moon?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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