I think just about everyone has at one point in time wished they could get somewhere faster. How fast will we be able to go places? What is the best form of extremely fast transportation? In this topic we can look at multiple options.
Let's start smaller first. How fast could we get cars to go? The first challenge would be obtaining as much energy as possible in a car without building an extremely large engine. This is tough, so I think we need to rely on multiple resources.
We need to use a combination of fossil fuels, solar power, wind power, hydroelectric, and other forms of fuel. If we could have a neverending supply of renewable energy going into the car's battery/engine, we could use a lot more energy for a longer amount of time.
With this in mind, we could get a car to go 300 mph if we wanted to. Then there's dealing with friction. As we increase the speed, we have to make sure a car doesn't overheat and that the g forces do not rip a person's face off. That wouldn't be good.
For the overheating, I think we need to have the hydroelectric power also act as a cooling agent. The water would help cool the engine. Also that wind powering the car could cool it. Just throwing out some ideas for keeping the engine cool.
To control the g forces, we pressurize the air in the car, sort of like they do in a plane. With really fast "hyperspeed" cars, we need to build them more like airplanes, but as smaller personal ground jets. Cars would be more like a jet than a car.
Another option for really fast transportation would be to have a very extensive network of super fast trains. It would be sort of like the road system we have today. A few mainlines of super speed trains branch out into smaller branches with even smaller branches of trains. These trains could get away with having much larger engines and would probably be allowed to pick up much more speed than cars, but the trains are a form of public transportation, and are required to make stops at certain areas, while the cars are not.
What about teleportation? If we built teleportation pads at thousands of locations all over the globe, then it would be the ultimate fast way to get somewhere. The problem with that idea would be that the energy that the people were turned into while teleporting could collide, causing a major problem. I think that form of transportation, although the fastest, is unsafe in many ways.
What if we gave everyone a jetpack (provided they earn their jetpack license)? Traffic would be a lot easier to avoid. However, it is not necessarily very fast transportation, and the amount of fuel necessary to power a useful jetpack is quite large. That is a problem, and we can't put a lot of fuel into it without making it far too heavy to be propelled in the air.
Those are just a few options. What do you think will become the fastest form of transportation?
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I like the Cars Idea, But see problem in if noone follows roadways, there may be high speed collisions, and if we do follow roads and traffic rules, what happens at the stop sign? there wouldn't be enough time to get up to speed before the next one, and If you slow down too much you could stall (wreck) your car in landing. those and the right (90 degree) angle turn. Myth Busters busted turning at high speeds using Centripital force because they couldn't get it to release at the right time. THeres A problem!!!
ReplyDeleteTrains seem like the best method to me. With personal rail cars on a unified track run by a supercomputer there would be no whipe-outs unless programmed to do so. It would be like the maglev (I think I spelled it right). you get in your personal rail car, say the place or adress you wish to go, verify it with a keyboard, and your off. NO HUMAN CONTROL FROM INSIDE THE VEHICLE!!!!! the track will be built so your car is always out of the way when and when not in use and will only be accesible by you unless you invite others to come along with you. Maintnence from snow maybe tricky unless it is all tunnels, which would be good actually because then Deer would have a harder time finding their way in front of a vehicle.
BY the Way My Dad sais that flying cars are good unless they invent levitating constructions barrels to line up along the airway. ANd I Add, Sometimes people want to slow down, so a walkway or safe area to bike would be nessicary as well.
dan, your so called rocket car seems to me like an implausible idea. for one to have to woory about the outside of the the car to heat up ot to woory about g-force effects ripping you face off it would be immposible to drive.
ReplyDeletethe human mind is not fast enough to prosses the info and react in those rapid conditions.
secondly. you could only go a little faster than today's speed limets because again the human mind is not able to comprehend the info so quickly and even if its in the air it makes it even more difficult to drive.
the solution in my opinion is a bullet train type of transportation
you type in you destonation to the computer and you pay it so much according to the electricity concumption of the trip and you go
there is no danger of a wreck because the super computer runs all of the other personal bullet trains. then if you can not afford a personal one like,like a car or rv,then you can ride an other one that is for public and cargo, a sepperate track is also required.
to cross over oceans or to get into remote areas though require eather to fly in or to use ,traditional methods of transportation.
The cars would be difficult to work with since it is almost impossible to make decisions fast enough. Turning would epically fail. Therefore jet cars is basically busted.
ReplyDeleteI think the trains would be the best option out of those that we have come up with so far because they are by far the safest, easiest to use, and fastest.
On the note of flying cars, they would need floating construction barrels so that you don't run out of gas/electric over top of a construction site and land on top of the workers below. That would hurt.
very funny, I hope they don't because there would be no need for roads to be constructed. Floating barrels seem a bit excessive
ReplyDeleteWell, that's true. I didn't think of that.
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