A reminder to everyone: PLEASE trim the junk off your posts-- those parts of the posts to which you are responding that are not necessary to understanding the...
I pass along this odd piece of information I ran across: http://www.myrome.co.uk/rome/community.htm "Silvio Berlusconi started his professional life as a...
Gee, thanks, Erik. You've utterly shredded my worldview ;^) OTOH, if the Italians and the courts ever finally get it together to throw the bum out, we can...
... The relevant formulae are: Pc = 1 /(1+2RC/t) Pd = 1-2RC/t where Pc is charging efficiency Pd is discharging efficiency (always less than Pc) R is internal...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0601-23.htm Published on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle Building Living Cities by William Leddy ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/02/DDGP4D19131.DTL If a green utopia on Treasure Island sounds far-fetched, dreamers have a plan by...
Hi, Related to this discussion of the supercapacitor-tram, it would not be a possible scheme for shorter distance regional trains (typical European "railbuses"...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 3, 2005 9:55 am
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... I wouldn't necessarily rule out the use of capacitors for these uses. Development seems to be on-going, and the biggest shot of energy needed is to...
The HSR situation here in North America. Till later, Andrew Dawson...
Andrew Dawson
m82a1_dawson@...
Jun 3, 2005 4:41 pm
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Following this, some possibilities for American HSR, or, rather, HSR in the Americas! (I realise that Mexico has almost no passenger services now and that this...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 3, 2005 6:45 pm
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Mexicans would have true high speed rail before the USA or Canada, even the Chinese and the Russians are further ahead than us....
Andrew Dawson
m82a1_dawson@...
Jun 3, 2005 7:39 pm
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HI, It will be pretty funny if in a few years people from the Western USA fly to D.F or Guadalajara to do "high speed rail" tourism. Maybe the airlines wont...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 3, 2005 9:23 pm
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... Wow, the floor of that unit must be four feet above grade. In what decade was it built, and what in the world is crammed underneath? As for the toilet,...
TODD: Dont get relaxed about the Russians, however, they ... DOUG: Wow, the floor of that unit must be four feet above ... TODD: The railcar is built by...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 4, 2005 5:03 am
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Hi, Can someone direct me to some good objective-as-possible infosources (websites, listserves) where i can find out about and get opinions on the idea and/or...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 4, 2005 6:06 am
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Hi All, Errrrrr, Todd wanted a long discussion on this topic. I consider it pretty far off-topic and would prefer that replies to this question be direct to...
=v= Somebody told me that they'd read of an assessment of the energy impact of Amory Lovins' Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colorado. This is a very,...
... Ask and ye shall receive. Jim Kunstler graciously provided the following for our entertainment. -Doug _____________ Salon - Lovins / Kunstler exchange ...
=v= Thank you for posting the exchange to this discussion! I'm an admirer of both of these guys. My environmental activism dates back to the anti-nuke...
Interesting pull-quote: "A new system doesn't reduce traffic, but it should decrease the rate of growth," said the University of Puerto Rico engineering ...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 6, 2005 11:52 pm
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For those interested in reading more about parking (information is power; the power to reduce zoning for parking is the power to reduce cars in cities!), ...
So it's getting closer! My husband and I have been waiting patiently while he finished school so that we can leave this state and live a different kind of...
Hey! Astoria is close enough to Manhattan to go by bike, or with subway or bike+subway if it is too cold or hot. Not sure about latest bike accessibility on...
Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 7, 2005 10:20 pm
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This article is on the carfree 42nd Street proposal I reported on last month. The figures on the increase in pedestrian traffic are remarkable. ...
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Todd Edelman
traintowardsthefuture...
Jun 9, 2005 11:22 am
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Hi All, I'm pondering a question in Alexander's The Nature of Order regarding the use of finite-element-analysis to design an exposed truss. If there is anyone...
In the US, IIRC, 68% of all oil consumption is for transportation. If you need a source to cite, let me know and I'll find it. For world statistics, try the...
Can someone help me with these figures? Someone (the San Diego County Regional Airport authority) is giving the following: o Freeways: $8 million per...
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