fll project presentation by the whatchamacallits: peter, aidan, micah, and jacob
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• Local Travel works well, has a few problems:• Safety• Pollution
• Long distance travel:o Too many stops=too slowo Old tracks=slow o Only one trip each day from Northern CA to
Southern CAo Not enough passengers, because of this!
Example Trip:
Palo Alto to Anaheim
CAR HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
SAVED
CO2 emissions 416 lbs. 82 lbs. 334 lbs.
Cost $88 $56 $32
Time 8 hours 2.5 hours 5.5 hours
• It is very fasto It goes from San Francisco to Los Angeles In 2 ½ Hours.
• Eco Friendlyo Does not use gasolineo Electrico Very efficient
• SAFE!o No grade crossings
• Comfortable• Convenience
o No Security checkpoints?o Stations Downtowno More Stations
One Solution: One solution to the problems with noise and looks is to
create an underground tunnel This will not divide neighborhoods, and won’t be ugly.
We went to the high-speed rail workshop and found out that the cost of creating a tunnel was around $200-300 million per mile. This is too expensive, so we had to think of a new idea.
Us with Joseph Bellomo, an architect who also had the raised- track idea.
• An elevated track with pillars to hold it up.o Allows foot traffic and cars to travel
underneath it.o Can be designed attractivelyo Other communities have done this sort
of project.
The Second Part of the Problem
• The next part of the problem is, what will they do for the power source.
• There is...o Catenary wires, the wires that are above the train, which
are ugly.o A third rail, which is very dangerous.o Gasoline, which is bad for the environment.o Electricity which is very cheap but hard to get to the train.o A fuel cell, which is extremely efficient but is very
expensive. • Out of all of these the fuel cell is the best choice... except
for the cost.
Our solution to that problem
• Make the High speed train powered by Fuel cell, it only emits nitrogen and water.o No more Wireso Eco-Friendlyo it is not ugly in any way.o Although, it costs just a bit more.
• We Put it on our team website: www.whatchamacallits.org • On November 8, we had a meeting with Palo
Alto City Council Member Mrs. Yoriko Kishimoto
• She is a Board Member of Valley Transportation Authority
Biblography www.carbonify.com http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail http://www.energy.iastate.edu/Renewable/ammonia/
ammonia/2006/VehicleProjects.pdf http://www.trainnet.org/Libraries/Lib019/EUROSTAR.JPG
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