Evacuated Tube Transport ™

Space Travel on Earth ™

http://www.et3.com

Evacuated Tube Transport ™ is faster than jets yet can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric cars or trains at 1/10th the cost. An open consortium of licensees (et3.com Inc.) collectively owns this IP. Our mission is Space Travel on Earth ™ where car sized capsules accelerated by electric power coast on maglev in an automated tube network without air friction. Existing skills, capacities, and materials are sufficient for implementation.

Please join us at www.et3.com and start building a better future for us all!

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ET3
• Evacuated
• Tube
• Transport
• NASA
• future
• technology
• AlienScientist
• Science

[KyleAKAHerm]

in theory, wouldn't the velocity of going 4000mph be a little too much for the average person to handle?

[EvacuatedTubes]

@KyleAKAHerm Right now you and i (and everyone else) are travelling 67,000mph in orbit around the sun. The sun and entire solar system is orbiting the milky way galaxy at 200,000mph. The milky way is moving about 400k mph. The average human travels hundreds of billions of miles through the evacuated environment of space during their life time. Travel in an evacuated environment is the most proven form of transportation in the universe!

[pidromonz]

when will the project start to be built?

[EvacuatedTubes]

@pidromonz only tests have been done so far, and they confirm the technical feasibility. There are many political barriers, and only people like you and i (lots of people) can change that by writing letters and informing more people about this. When the first commercial system is built and publicised, growth can be very rapid because almost all of the key technologies, production capacities, parts, and materials are off-the-shelf items.

[EvacuatedTubes]

@noodlesdefyyou The tubes will not be capable of withstanding a nuke blast (what is??). Most transportation modes can be damaged with bullets, fortunately acts of terror constitute less than 1% of transportation fatalities. ET3 focuses on what kills 99% of people who die in transportation mishaps; AND it is also clear that ET3 will offer less exposure to terror (and "acts of God" like meteorite strikes) than cars, jets, ships, and trains. Let's focus on the positive.

[scott98390]

@KyleAKAHerm Speed is not the issue, it's acceleration.

[nistyboy32]

@KyleAKAHerm watch?v=rMmbStKzfWk The whole video is awesome but watch from 6:35 to acquire the answer to your question

[deathfake1]

@KyleAKAHerm Not at all!! You could travel at speed of light with no problem.. What kills people is acceleration.

So, if train slowly accelerates, it should have no any negative effect on people..

[ThisFlat]

wow, this is awesome. I hope this is in place in my Life time. Would be cool to travel that way.

[Enzo2284]

Crude in comparison to The Venus Project,but a good try.

[Knepperify1]

"during this trip, ETT was evaluated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, NJT University in Beijing and the Design Institute for The Chinese Ministry of Rail."

I have some bad news for you guys.

During that trip ALL of your IP was copied and stolen by the Chinese.

You have, unknowingly, given away your IP.

If this ever gets off the ground, you won't make a penny.

[Knepperify1]

One bulldozer destroying one pylon of the 4,000 kph line would kill hundreds, contaminate the tube with air, and lower public acceptance just like a dirigible explosion.

The air has to be removed. This requires pumps and energy to remove and keep removed.

It's just too unsafe and the savings in materials just means that it's easier to sabotage.

[Knepperify1]

Problem with such speeds is that the distance between stations is necessarily very large due to deceleration and acceleration times and distances.

This would only be useful for trips of 1000km+ or greater. n

Transcontinental or transoceanic voyages only.

Boston to NYC or Atlanta to Chicago out of the question.

[username102030405]

@username102030405 ahh I just saw that you do have that...in the flash part, I think it should be a far bigger focal point though, in text.

[username102030405]

Absolutely incredible. One suggestion, I think you need to simplify the home page of ET3.com and bullet point the major benefits of ETT with simple stats that the average person can understand, Bejing to New York in 2 hours (I think thats what you said), 20 000 a year saved, profit margins and other major benefits etc etc etc, leave the technical detail for people that want to get deeper into the website.