Innovative Transport Solutions

Hi again,

Follow the link

http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/siteindx.htm

for a great variety of transportaion forms. Some of them have even been made. For your browsing pleasure,

Oren

Helium

Hi guys,
this is an opportunity to put in a dream of mine which I've been fostering for over 25 years. Long story short: How do you feel about a vehicle which basically maneuvers like a helicopter, using four small rotors, and which is floated with helium tanks to a degree of about 80% - making it a heavier-than-air "mini-blimp", whose weight is reduced by the helium tanks to such an extent that four modest rotors, powered by only one, centrally mounted pressurized-air driven motor and a motorcycle chain, suffice to lift it.
It would be like the Jetsons, but come true with low-tech available even to the Victorian age - well, not quite, but make it Edwardian. So, this is not difficult to do. I'll try to add a pic to make it clear (may take a while, it's at home).

Chris Ebbert

PAL-V 'Personal Air and Land Vehicle'

here is a link to PAL-V 'Personal Air and Land Vehicle'

http://www.pal-v.com/

E-Bikes and Fuel Cell Trek

Hi,
I was looking at a website created by Jonathan X Weinert, a grad student from UC Davis who is currently studying ways to make "transportation more environmentally sustainable in developing countries". He has work on fuel cells, hydrogen, and his current focus; e-bikes. Well worth looking at. Just follow the link:

jxweinert.squarespace.com

There is also a movie he posted on youtube, picturing a mass of e-bikes swarming through one of China's larger cities. Have a look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6wQcIGx5Ew

Oren.

Welcome!

Hi all, welcome to our blog. This is our 'primordial soup', a place for our ideas to meet and grow. Please post anything you have been working on or perhaps has caught your interest.

Looking at inner-city mobility in developing countries there are a number of problems that need to be addressed. Congestion and pollution are paramount.

I've mostly been looking at alternative transport infrastructure such as light rail, tram-like power sources under the road to support personal vehicles, gondola or ski-lift networks for small packages, or a way of harnessing the energy efficiency inheirent in pendulum motion, perhaps one day flying through the city like spiderman. An alternative or supplimentary infrastructure excites me because conjestion can be reduced radically, and these countries could end up leading the way.

Oren.