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Conflict between monopoly and innovation

The purpose of government is to minimize violence from crime and war by coercing compliance with law.

Innovation is a compliance failure. Innovating the “general welfare” requires two aspects of Liberty intertwining in a Dawinian crucible of creative destruction. Tolerance of Disruptive Minorities offering choices and tolerance of the Wisdom of the Many soring those choices in free markets and free speech (Liberty).

A century of Federal infrastructure monopolies

Courts declared the Federal communication monopoly (1918) unconstitutional in 1982. With liberty restored, the long-dormant technologies of the Internet commercialized, replacing rotary telephones with the Internet.

JPods documented the 21 Presidential veto message that explain why States are sovereign over “internal improvements”, why Federal monopolies in transportation (1916) and power (1936) violate the Constitution’s Preamble, post Roads, No Preference clauses. These violation of the Constitution resulted in a century of 25 mpg efficiency of the Model-T, foreign oil addiction, oil-dollar funded terrorism, oil wars, and Climate Change.

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Restoring Liberty in Transport and Energy

JPods documents that Congressional Study “Automated Guideway Transit” and Morgantown’s PRT have provided a solution to urban traffic since President Nixon sent his daughter to open the Morgantown network of grade-separated, self-driving cars in 1972.JPods defined the 5x5Solar to enforce the Constitution by allowing Rights of Way access to privately funded transport networks 5 times more efficient than roads, for 5% of their gross revenues. Networks capable of 5x5Solar will achieve what Thomas Edison understood as practical and has been delay by government monopolies for a century:

Thomas Edison, 1910:

1910: “Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same… This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of—it is so wasteful. It is just the old, foolish Prometheus idea, and the father of Prometheus was a baboon.

“When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. 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.”

Catalyst, changing economic lifeblood from oil to ingenuity:

Transportation has always been the catalyst for changing energy systems.
  • In the late 1800’s 260,000 miles of freight railroads were built to create the nation’s logistical arteries.
  • Railroads changed the energy system from biofuels (hay and wood) to fossil fuels.
  • In the next 3-12 years we will build 500,000 miles (US) of solar-powered transport networks to be the urban logistical capillaries.
  • Fossil fuels will be displaced by solar (sun, wind, tides).
  • Distributed Grid™ integrates microgrids to store 3-5 MWh/mile/day of guideways.

Simple summary:

  • For simple calculations, JPods network deploy 1 megawatt of collector per mile (at 4 meters wide).
    • Power (MWhrs) is the miles of guideway times hours of “noon day sun,” typically 3.5-5.5 (daily sun is normally a bell curve from sunrise to sunset. “Noon-day-sun” squishes the bell curve into a square box to get a single value for ease of estimating.
      • Macon, GA with 5.2 hours of “noon-day-sun”:
        • Phase 1: 4 mile network * 5.2 = 20.8 MWhr per day or 832,000 vehicle-miles of power per day
        • Phase 2: 68 miles of network * 5.2 = 353.6 MWhr/day or 14,144,000 vehicle-miles of power per day
        • Currently there are 100,000 cars in Bibb County. So if JPods replaced 50% of the cars in Macon, the network would gather enough energy for them to each drive 283 miles each day. Currently the average car-miles/year are 13,476, or 36.92 miles/day.
    • Noon-day sun map

Net Energy and the Energy Cliff

Life requires energy. Less energy, less life.

Net Energy is the most important metric in energy:

  • Net Energy is to energy what Profit is to business.
  • Net Energy and Profit are what is left over after you have paid all expenses, jobs, interests, capital, taxes, shareholders, and all.
  • Net Energy and Profit provide choice beyond subsistence.
  • Chris Martenson’s Cheap Peak Oil provides an excellent summary of Net Energy.
  • Following is a graph of Net Energy and the Energy Cliff. Net Energy below 5:1 is where economies collapse.

Comparison:

Within a Solar Budget

My US Patent solves the problem Edison noted that “Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity”. Grade separate and robotize the transportation network to cut energy needs by 95% and use the distriuted nature of that network to gather the energy to power it.

  • Networks of self-driving cars: “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”
  • Solar-powered mobility networks: “The method… providing… Solar and wind power generators integrated into the physical Structure of Said transportation System….”

On the left is an implementation of the Solar Collection System created by Swenson Solar, Santa Cruz, CA. Examples of solar collector systems designed for deployment over JPods rails applied to the parking lot at Plantronic’s Headquarters in Santa Cruz, CA

Over the JPods rails, collectors will typically be 4 to 10 meters, this unit is 6.7 meters.

JPods solar collectors will typically be 4 to 10 meters wide, this unit is 10 meters.

The units are curved. There is a small sacrifice of efficiency for this curved shape but this is more the compensated for by the improved aestetics. Aestestics are critically important.

Solar collection applied to JPods networks produces about 50,000 vehicle-kilometers of power per kilometer per day. Following is a summary of the Production and Consumption to back these numbers:

Energy Production:

The following links and data update about every 15 minutes based on Plantronics 375 units:

Yearly kw-hr collections on this 240 meter long, 10 meter wide array averages 367,410 for the last five full years. This equates to 4.19 megawatt-hours per day per kilometer. The weather conditions in Santa Cruz include a heavy marine fog layer for several hours each morning in the summer. This results in a solar input of about 4 Peak Sun-Hours per day .

1/1/12 381,393.09
1/1/13 390,195.19
1/1/14 355,894.66
1/1/15 367,895.4
1/1/16 341,675.91

Energy Consumption:

JPods vehicles require about 38.5 watt-hours to travel a kilometer. Here is a link to the Physics of JPods with associated calculations. This budget is increased to 79 watt-hours per kilometer to account for heating and airconditioning.

By dividing the 4 megawatt-hours collected each day by the 79 watt-hours required to move, heat and cool a JPods vehicle per km, results in about 50,000 vehicle-km of power per km per day.

Collection system by Frank Pao for over JPods stations. These systems are not designed to be as efficient as possible but to create “light play” in station areas.

Energy Resources:

Methane is the battery Edison was looking for. Personal Energy Servers combine into the Distributed Grid. Go to DistributedGrid.com.

Random articles on solar:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-solar-and-wind-resources-saved-co…

China (339) continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined

FUTURE OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC, https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2019/Nov/IRENA_Future_of_Solar_PV_2019.pdf

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