Las Vegas, NV (archive)

Maps created with JPods RouteTime software that simulates networks. From the Red Cross you can walk, travel, walk to within Green in 5 minutes, Bule in 10 minutes, Yellow in 20 minutes, and Red in 30 minutes.

Time Maps: Start Small, Iterate Relentlessly

Garden Girls and Debt, Oil Impact on Young Live

Summary of How to Re-tool Transport by 2020

Appearance

Jobs Re-tooling

Provides opportunity to re-establish America’s manufacturing base.

Counting walking, ticketing and travel time from the Blue Cross, areas in Green are 10 minutes, areas in Yellow are in 20 minutes and areas in Red are in 30 minutes. Black lines represent computer instructions on distances for calculating travel times, not precise routes.

Example of Stadium Network

More images by Robert Therrien and Judeth Van Hamm matching JPods technology to local esthetics. This network is primarily locally owned. Local interests will make the decisions.

Example station:

Principles: Self-reliance is the Solution, Debt is the Tax on Future Labor

Life requires energy. Oil is finite so life and nations based on oil are terminal.

Less affordable energy, less life. Even without the oil supply shocks of the 1970, as gasoline prices increase people have more and more difficulty affording to pay for both their mortgage and commute. Building the JPods network in Hull my cut the number of cars a family needs and save families a car payment per month.

Joint Forces Command’s Joint Operating Environment 2010 (JOE-2010) warning to all US military commands:

“By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day.”

“A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity. While it is difficult to predict precisely what economic, political, and strategic effects such a shortfall might produce, it surely would reduce the prospects for growth in both the developing and developed worlds. Such an economic slowdown would exacerbate other unresolved tensions, push fragile and failing states further down the path toward collapse, and perhaps have serious economic impact on both China and India. At best, it would lead to periods of harsh economic adjustment. To what extent conservation measures, investments in alternative energy production, and efforts to expand petroleum production from tar sands and shale would mitigate such a period of adjustment is difficult to predict. One should not forget that the Great Depression spawned a number of totalitarian regimes that sought economic prosperity for their nations by ruthless conquest.”

“Energy production and distribution infrastructure must see significant new investment if energy demand is to be satisfied at a cost compatible with economic growth and prosperity.”

“The discovery rate for new petroleum and gas fields over the past two decades (with the possible exception of Brazil) provides little reason for optimism that future efforts will find major new fields.”

Foward by General James N Mattis

The vast majority of people recognize that Oil is Finite.

The vast majority of people recognize that depleting resources threatens our children, but significantly fewer accept that we are taxing our children without their consent and voting benefits for ourselves that will have to be paid for by the labor of children.

Less than 50% of people believe a solution is possible. But that is normal. Innovation comes from individuals or small groups. Free markets works by allowing niches for innovators to create solutions and the aggregate the wisdom of the many to choose between choices.

When the government controlled the means of production in communications, we had a century of rotary telephones; government institutions strive for consistency above all else. In 1984 the courts enforced the Constitution and restored communications to free markets. When liberty to choose networks was restored to the people, the Internet and cell nets commercialized. Millions of jobs, vast innovation and better service at lower costs.

When control over the means of production in transportation is restored to free markets, JPods, ET3 and other alternative networks will commercialize to provide freight rail efficiency in personal and urban cargo transport.