fll project presentation by the whatchamacallits: peter, aidan, micah, and jacob
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FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob. California Bay Area Palo Alto. Our Community. Palo Alto. Cars Planes Trains Skateboards Ambulances Feet Bikes Boats Helicopters Motorcycles. How People move around. Caltrains BART Trains Amtrak - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob
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• California• Bay Area• Palo Alto
Palo Alto
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• Cars• Planes• Trains• Skateboards• Ambulances• Feet• Bikes• Boats• Helicopters• Motorcycles
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• Caltrains• BART Trains• Amtrak• Light Rail
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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!
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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
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• 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
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• Loud• Ugly tracks• Ugly Wires• Divides neighborhoods• Expensive• Location of stations
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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.
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• 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.
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A light rail from the Seattle Tacoma airport.
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We created a model of our raised-rail idea in Google Sketchup.
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Transparent sound baffles
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Our Model placed in Palo Alto
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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.
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Here are some examples of ugly catenary wires
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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.
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One fuel cell locomotive concept running on liquid ammonia
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• 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
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THANK YOU!
The Whatchamacallits
…any questions?
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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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Our Robot for FLL