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craze said..
Planning for the future by building yesteryears vision..........
Just because steam locomotive and railroads as such were invented two hundreds years ago ( 1802 exactly) and Australia didn't managed still build decent rail doesn't mean the idea is automatically obsolete.
Even with recent progress in quantum physics the basic physical principles remains the same.
The rail road mass transport is the most cost/ time effective. Full stop. Nothing is going to change it.
If you consider to transport 50,000 tones from Brisbane to Perth in the fastest/cheapest/ safest/ cleanest way there is no other means to do so.
THEN
NOW
TOMORROW
???
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craze said..
Planning for the future by building yesteryears vision..........
Just because steam locomotive and railroads as such were invented two hundreds years ago ( 1802 exactly) and Australia didn't managed still build decent rail doesn't mean the idea is automatically obsolete.
Even with recent progress in quantum physics the basic physical principles remains the same.
The rail road mass transport is the most cost/ time effective. Full stop. Nothing is going to change it.
If you consider to transport 50,000 tones from Brisbane to Perth in the fastest/cheapest/ safest/ cleanest way there is no other means to do so.
THEN
NOW
TOMORROW
???
hey, I am not a billionaire or anything like that, but how is it that they have 'air bearings' and huge fans to power it along, yet have almost a 'near-vacuum' to travel in?
Or is this just an example of where someone thinks that they know heaps more than anyone else and come up with an "obvious" concept that "just must" work?
Any scientists care to explain how you have a near vacuum and then use blasts of air to lift you up and then huge fans to pull you through it?
I guess assumption number one is 'start with a billion dollars to iron out the details'.
Backward compatibility
If you think about Wide Rail in technical details - emerging possibilities are fascinating.
Suppouse the we have our wide rails 7 meter apart.
1. We could add another rail inside - then ordinary train could go on our wide line,
2. We could add two rails and we have traditional traffic in both directions
3. We could simply build two traditional rail tracks but carefully synchronized- making external dimension 7 meters apart,
Now could utilize our standard traction components - wheels and carriages. Two parallel carriages will be connected together and could carry big wide cabin or platform -spanning 7 meters !
This way on our almost typical rail road we could run either two ordinary trains in opposite directions or one wide in single direction.
Make economical sense and minimize the risk of project failure to zero.
Just smart designed two ordinary rail tracks could be easily converted into one single wide rail.
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Dude take less drugs we have a cross country rail system also a north south one witch intersects the other why would you make an efficient rail train go the long way around thats pilot talk. "my sister was a tard now shes a pilot" Idiocrasy best movie ever!!
Because if it goes in a circle the trains can keep running forward. Our current system of A to B and back again means that on the return journey the trains have to run backward, which is both very inefficient and somewhat nauseating for the passengers.
The circle line is genius.
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"To catch the train to Brisbane is $10, and to return to Gold Coast is $15.
But in Brisbane the ticket to Gold Coast is only $10, so I buy the ticket there and save $5!"
- My sister. True story. Now she drives a Bentley.
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We need to think in perspective of next 1000 years.
Absolutely, but unfortunately politicians are only capable of thinking in the perspective of the next election.
you are
absolutley right, china
and the government over there has
100, 200 and 300 year plans
(dead set)
Its why they are rising and rising our government only cares at max about the term they are in and when any forward thinkers come in with projects that may run 10-20 years no-one on opposition (either side cause theres only two lets it happen cause they are all scared of doing anything which closely resembles building an economy
LOL WUT? Our government has plans looking forward as far as the year 2000.
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Because if it goes in a circle the trains can keep running forward. Our current system of A to B and back....
The circle .... is genius.
Lets think for a while about that:
At this moment exactly trains go to from Point A to B
and
not going to Point C
because
there is Nothing at Point C.
There is Nothing in Point C because trains doesn't come here.
That is really genius circle ! You are absolutely right !
^ This is not as silly as it may first appear. Freeways have the well documented problem of creating traffic.
www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
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- My sister. True story. Now she drives a Bentley.
Yep I heard that too,. She met rich guy in Brisbane, they get married....
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Freeways have the well documented problem of creating traffic.
That is good news for business.
If increased capacity of our rail line create traffic - that mean business.
Both in ticket/ freight charges and mean that people are moving something - goods, items , materials. machinery. Building something maybe.
I would like to see what could be saturation point for our wide rail line on the route Brisbane to Perth ? Sydney to Melbourne ?
In other words how many full size 50,000 tones trains per day we could maximally send before we rich this saturation point and you could't not send anymore.
I guess that at this point you will earn enough on the business to lay second similar line.
^^^^^ @ craze who said It would be a lot cheaper to build designated roads solely for trucks to transport goods, or step into the present and accept Aviation is the future
You have to be kidding. Air freight, the way of the future???
Look up the statistics. The lowest cost per tonne for moving freight is by rail and ship.
Mining companies do not air freight their products.
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Backward compatibility
If you think about Wide Rail in technical details - emerging possibilities are fascinating.
Suppouse the we have our wide rails 7 meter apart.
Careful now. That would be breaking a tradition well over 1,000 years old.
infobluemountains.net.au/rail/horse-ass.htm
cisco...........you are kidding right?
rail is cheaper now, but you forget to factor in the new price after one builds an Australian sized particle accelerator for trains........
when did moving large amounts of coal to every destination in Australia become so important??
as for planning 1000yrs ahead.......absolutely redonk
you can forsee the massive changes in climate, human attitude, what will the new electricity be generated from????
you saps couldnt accurately paint a picture 20yrs ahead
the future, if there is one worth caring about, will have a lot to do with the advancement of drones not krusty ol rail
Safety
At the startup ordinary train is already 30 x safer then car to travel.
I imagine that our future wide fast trains will be operated by computer autopilot.
One that doesn't have distractions, don't need to rest or make calls or send textmessages like human.
Creating autopilot for train running on fixed steel road should be also easier then flying airplane or navigating road traffic
Economy
Running on steel road is already 10 to 20 x more effective then road truck.
I am guessing that our big diameter future train may have even better proportion : wagon weight / to useful load inside.
Hopefully we could translate the efficiency into saving on freight charges.
Lets imagine that our shipping cost per pallet Brisbane to Perth can be now 20 x cheaper !
Instead of paying $1100 you could pay only $55 for shipping full pallet 1 tone load from Brisbane to Perth !
How many 100 billions $ will this fast RR cost and when would you expect it to cost $55 per ton! in some dream about 100 years from now lols
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How many 100 billions $ will this fast RR cost and when would you expect it to cost $55 per ton! in some dream about 100 years from now lols
Suppuse that:
our train carry 50,000 tones and the profit is $50 per tone only.
50,000 x $50 = $2,500,000 that is the $$$ for single train , single run.
Run hundred trains a day in whole Australia and you have $250,000,000 ! That is a lot on money , a quarter of the billion everyday.
or 90 billion in one year !
All at absurd low $50 per tone on 4500 km trip, Now you could play with number increase profit or lower it.
That almost hundred billlion dollar is quite a number that will make any finance minister thinking seriously .
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How many 100 billions $ will this fast RR cost and when would you expect it to cost $55 per ton! in some dream about 100 years from now lols
Suppuse that:
our train carry 50,000 tones and the profit is $50 per tone only.
50,000 x $50 = $2,500,000 that is the $$$ for single train , single run.
Run hundred trains a day in whole Australia and you have $250,000,000 ! That is a lot on money , a quarter of the billion everyday.
or 90 billion in one year !
All at absurd low $50 per tone on 4500 km trip, Now you could play with number increase profit or lower it.
That almost hundred billlion dollar is quite a number that will make any finance minister thinking seriously .
Considering an average railway line costs about 100million a km.........Im assuming your giant sized air hockey railway is gunna cost a bit more
So once you've out layed about 100million times about 10000km times (how many tracks you running) times the difficulty and extra expensive of laying a railway track in some very very remote areas times Australias massive labour costs times the many union stop work costs........
Not to mention how long in passenger fares it will be to finally make a profit on the worlds largest investment.....
Not to mention, the resources in Australia aren't unlimited, so how long did you think you could take $250,000,000 worth of coal, ore out of the ground per day before it ran out
My guess is by the time you finish your railway........there will be no ore, coal anything left to transport........derDueyyyyyy
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Considering an average railway line costs about 100million a km
You could do cheaper if you want. China could build their trains at 9 million per km including bridges and tunnels.
Our terrain in much easier and flatter then Chinese.
At the end all money spent finish in Australian pockets.
So if we spent 10 billions on rail track between Sydney and Melbourne or even 100 billions, all that money goes into your pocket.
Lets think about it this way: If government pay for the project 100 billion in wages, instantly have 55 bln back in income tax and GST on wages .
Stimulating whole economy. At the end all money are only printed tickets/ numbers but rail way is real and here to stay forever.
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craze said..
Considering an average railway line costs about 100million a km
You could do cheaper if you want. China could build their trains at 9 million per km including bridges and tunnels.
Our terrain in much easier and flatter then Chinese.
At the end all money spent finish in Australian pockets.
So if we spent 10 billions on rail track between Sydney and Melbourne or even 100 billions, all that money goes into your pocket.
Stimulating whole economy. At the end all money are only printed tickets/ numbers but rail way is real and here to stay forever.
Yeah, Im sure Australia could do it as cheap as China....Easy.....
Stop paying wages, swap that for a bowl of rice a day,
Stop the redonk luxurious life that the average aussie lives for a more third world lifestyle like the average Chinese..........................
It would cost more than 9million per km just in planning costs and associated BS in Australia before a track was even layed
Again, how long to you estimate Australia will be taking $250,000,000 worth of resources out of the ground for....
the next 20yrs, 50yrs....1000yrs,
Is this is your vision for the 1000yr plan, that basically everything would be the same as now,
The problem with an ego that truly thinks he could shape the future of the next 100generations of humans by thinking that those timelines wont be contributing by shaping their own immediate future is blind to some really fundamental human traits..............choo choo
