The Evacuated Tube Transport Technology Network

ET3 is Evacuated Tube Tranportation Technology (E+3 T's).

The ET3 vision is 'Space Travel on Earth' ™ a global Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) network sustainably offering crystal clean, lightning fast, almost free, recliner comfort transport for 90% of people and goods by the year 2030.  The ET3 mission is to provide a fair and open market where licensees may profitably leverage their assets to optimally implement ETT to maximize transportation value for all. 

The ET3 Conference will be held February 2011 in Florida.

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Some Values of ET3:

Maximum transportation VALUE through efficiency of: materials, energy, labor, and time.

Reliable and Simple: low parts count, fault tolerant, redundancy, resulting in great safety and low cost.     

Inclusive and open team collaboration of: planning, production, and standards, using parallel processes, existing capacities, and leveraging past investments.

Fair and transparent: private ownership incentives, competitive, whole and balanced, measurements and comparisons focused on value, universally accessible web-based tools.

Maximum sustainable ROI, investing our limited resources and time to yield the greatest long term benefits for ourselves, our families, our nations and our globe.

Cargo and passenger movement have equal importance. ETT gives equal consideration to efficiency and effectiveness of passenger and cargo movements.  Studies show that about 94% of cargo can be hauled in a ETT capsule having about the same volume as a van, pickup or large SUV, happily it turns out that this size vehicle is the most popular conveyance for people too.  

Fast is better than slow.  For inspiration we recognize that friction free travel conditions of galactic orbit is proven.  ETT is 'Space Travel on Earth' ™.  As soon as 2020 the average person will be able to travel between almost any major city on earth in less than 4 hours.    In addition, the average time to get to an access portal will quickly drop to about 15 min., and eventually to less than one minute.  

Demand oriented transport. Dense urban living has high costs for inhabitants and environment.  The footprint of cities extends far beyond the official city limits (as countless military sieges have proven).  Urbanites depend on long haul cargo.  ETT will allow people to efficiently and sustainably live and work where they want to, (instead of where the train tracks are).  This is what we call "Demand Oriented Transportation or (DOT) -- the opposite of TOD.  

Control should not require continuous effort. Wouldn't you rather interface with a 24 inch HD touch screen while kicking back in a posh recliner, than driving in heavy traffic while trying to see what is on a cell phone screen?  We plan to fuel greater innovation through free, open source platforms provided by big name brands that most of us already trust and use.    Not only will this benefit consumers with relevant timely information and more choice, it opens up revenue opportunities for advertisers, carriers, manufacturers and developers along every route.  Unlike in an airliner, or train, if we see something interesting en-route via ETT, we are in control and can stop to check it out.

All of us can make money through serving the greatest good.  Since ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh than the most efficient electric car or train; and since ETT can reduce infrastructure cost up to two orders of magnitude; there is plenty of profit potential as ETT displaces present transportation.  ETT can be built mostly with existing production capacity, processes, technologies, and materials.  Those who have the capacities, and make the investments will at once: lower consumer costs, increase jobs, increase revenue and ROI for much greater profits, and greatly stimulate the global economy with the cascading benefits.   

There will be expanding potential for several generations. The first nations to implement ETT will invigorate their economies, then the focus will shift to the enormous opportunity of accelerating the sustainable development of nations now in poverty.  ETT will allow sustainable prosperity to take root in developing nations at a much faster rate.  This will improve peace, green the earth, arrest population explosion, and create an age of global prosperity.   

The need for transportation crosses all borders. Our goal is to facilitate ultra efficient and effective transportation for the entire world. We do not limit the lawful involvement of anyone.  We will never restrict ETT based on: sex, age, race, religion, nationality (unless temporary mandated by laws).  We aim to provide the ET3 IP in as many languages and accessible formats as possible.  We will economically preempt conflict by building bridges across boundaries and between cultures and not impose walls. We believe that ETT will greatly increase the present peace that more than 99% of the world's population enjoys more than 99% of the time.  

Growing Two Long Tails.  Everyone in the world potentially has contributions (either as developers or consumers) to achieve ETT implementation for mutual benefit.  The ET3 consortium is open (similar to "open source"), to leverage the "long tail" of modest contributions from many; and also recognizes that there is another "long tail" to leverage -- past investments made for other purposes.   Much of the long tail of past investments cannot be captured with typical "open source" or "chaordic" principals.  To leverage the best commercial inventions, IP rights must be respected, and profit motives incentivized.

Great just isn't good enough.  Dissatisfaction with the way things are, and knowledge of the perpetual motion transportation example proven in earth's orbits becomes the driving force behind everything we do - 'Space Travel on Earth' - help us achieve the ET3 vision faster for your own profit, for your children, nations, and world; join our vision today.

Some inspiration for this is from: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html

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