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Personal Rapid Transit: Preempting the Need for Oil in Urban Transport

Excellent article & discussion! Not what I usually find googling PRT. And the "Physical-Internet" is wonderful...dead on.

> Invest in solar and wind collection manufacturing companies

I would differ on this point. PRT should be developed as energy source agnostic. I happen to believe the source will be almost entirely nuclear. You can't rely on solar on those cloudy days without needless investment in batteries.

Ken Gow said...
> Let’s not panic about oil prices. "Cheap" oil may have reached a peak but new sources of expensive oil (including bio fuels,

What!? I thought we finally put the nail in the biofuels coffin. If ever there was an idea that didn't pass basic high school physics muster, it's biofuels. I missed all your other points.

btw, here's my own vision for the PRT future...

www.PRTProject.com

gary