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- Transportation System
- Solar Energy Collection Grid
- Municipal Conduit
- Hydrogen Production & Distribution
- Energy Storage & Distribution
- Wireless Internet Access
- Millions of Tons of Stainless Steel
- Many Thousands of Jobs
- …and so much more…
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- Rapid Transit = $ /minute
- Advertising = $ /sign
- Hydrogen = $ /kilogram
- Electricity = $ /kilowatt
- Energy Storage = $ /kilowatt
- Fiberoptics = $ /bandwidth
- Fuel pipelines = $ /gallon or cubic foot
- Liquid waste = $ /barrel
- Brand New Water = $ /liter
- Internet / Telecom = $ /minute
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- Cost Range: $10-$20 Million /
Mile (parallel track)
- 4800 tons of steel / mile (rail only)
- 85,000 square feet of PV / mile
- ~ 1 Megawatt / mile / solar-hour
- ~ 238 cubic meters of hydrogen / mile / hour
- ~ 30 gallons of water / mile / hour (purification)
- Self sustaining 3-100 Transports Per Mile 24/7/365 (variable mass)
- Standard Installation includes:
- 3 Transports / 1 mile
- 2 Traveler Stations / 5 miles
- 1 ITC Utility Substation / 3 Miles
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- Eisenhower Interstate system 54,000 + miles
- Basic ‘Round Number’ System Estimates:
- 162,000 -Transports
- 22,000 -Traveler Stations
- 18,000 -Utility Substations
- 45,900,000,000 -watt/hour capacity (45.9 Billion
Watts)
- 156,656,700,000 -BTU/hour (3.413 BTU/ watt-hour)
- 1,620,000 -gallons of water per hour
- 9,720,000 -passenger capacity
- $540,000,000,000 -cost to build
at $10 Million / mile
- $242,000,000,000 -Annual Public
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9,720,000 -Passenger
Capacity
- 750,000,000 -Tons of Stainless Steel
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- Railways:
total: 20,872 km
narrow gauge: 20,436 km 1.065-m gauge
- (8,868 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge (2005)
- Roadways:
total: 362,099 km
paved: 73,506 km (including 239 km of expressways)
unpaved: 288,593 km
- (2002)
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- National Security
- Internet Backbone Backup
- Real-time Sensor Network
- Public, Private, Commercial and Military Networks
- Evacuation of Cities & Coastlines
- Fast network reconfiguration
- On demand Transport Deployment
- Humanitarian & Military Systems
- Hydrogen / Electricity Production
- Communications
- Logistical delivery
- Tsunami Relief / War Reconstruction
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- Respectfully Submitted by:
- The Interstate Traveler Company, LLC
- To:
- The Citizens of South Africa
- March 21st, 2007
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Notes