Immediate Need is for 3 Kitty Hawk Networks
- Concept
- Iraq, funded $75 million network
- GREENPORT and Atoka
- Secondary; $47 billion in networks are are staged.
Government Agreements summarized at Key Steps
JPods approach to issuing contracts:
- We want excellent vendors and will choose based on capabilities matching our needs.
- We are opening a new and very large market. Suppliers willing to contribute to opening the market by investing in their own participation is greatly appreciated.
- We have three ways of suppliers to benefit:
- Contracts
- “We win, you win” alliance where JPods commits to buying 25x the level of efforts supplied.
- PathFinder framework where equity in JPods networks is given to those helping to open Rights of Way access.
Components Required:
- Vehicles (JPods):
- Pod with car
- Chassis Summary
- Chassis Draft Requirements
- Drive systems (Bogies):
- Bogie with 200mm Wheels (Fusion 360)
- Bogie images, what we have built before
- Switch Behaviors, the Boss on top of the bogie that rides against a switch built into the guideway.
- Bogies and guideway interface, the envelop in which the bogies must travel and switch.
- Bogie Summary
- Draft Concept and Spec: Bogie
- Guideways (Truss and other structures)
- Truss images
- Draft Concept and Spec: Truss
- McLaren Truss pdf
- Milos Truss for mobile units
- Power
- Draft Spec
- Stations:
- Draft Spec
- Controls and modeling
- Software and electronics
- Route-Time and JPods3D
- Camera
- HuskyCam (video)
3 new Provisional Patents for building the Physical Internet®. These address current problems facing FEMA, insurance companies, power companies, and railroads.
- They build on my US patent 6,810,817 for solar-powered transport networks and enterprise software I wrote:
- Networks of robot vehicles without the requirement of a centralized computer control or human drivers: “A method of controlling a transportation System for moving people, freight, and any combination whereof using a distributed network of intelligent devices without requiring the aid of a human driver”
- Use of the guideway structures with alternative option to use solar energy to power the networks: “The method… providing… Solar and other power generators integrated into the physical Structure of Said transportation System….”
- 90 second summary
- Documentary on the future of transportation
- Automated Guideways Facilitating 3-Tiered Cargo Shipments
- The purpose of this invention is to reduce costs of shipping cargo on highways by integrating the just-in-time capabilities of Automated Guideway Transit networks with machine learning, railroad efficiency for long-haul, and Local Use Vehicles for last-mile deliveries.
- Energy Self-reliant of Automated Guideway Transit Networks
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The purpose of this invention is to implement energy self-reliant Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) networks to sustainably and durably move people and cargo. This invention uses the distributed nature of AGT networks to gather, store, distribute, and apply distributed renewable energy to power mobility needs.
- Temporary Implementations of Automated Guideway Transit Networks
These will implement what Thomas Edison noted as practical:
- 1910: “Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy… Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property…. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen….”
- 1931: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ’til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
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