I meant to say in the previous message:

You need to get your nose checked! You have been smelling too many gnat farts and apparently you think you smell things that aren’t there!

“I have 45 years of experience dealing with grifters and scam artists. I can smell one at 50 yards.”

First a scam is something done by people who have no intention of ever doing what they propose based on an impossible idea that they know to be false. Our idea is not only possible it is enevitable in one form or another and far from lacking the intention to prove ourselves right we have worked for years with our own money to prove ourselves and are within months of starting the building phase of the project.

I do not know why you feel so self ritcheous and judgemental about this but I have not head a cogent argument only a bunch of baseless opinion. Every time I proved you wrong you changed the subject trying to find a point of weakness. Now it’s just rhetoric.

I guess I am curious enough about one thing though and would really like to hear you address this question.

With mankind running out of economically obtainable hydrocarbon fuel and with climate change an ever increasing threat, how would you solve the problem? I wish to point out that any solution would go through the stage we are in right now and I assume you would attempt to kill them too so what is your agenda and what is your solution?

Thank you for the compliment on my images from my personal website, I have been involved in imaging as a imaging analysis specialist for many years and also did some illustration work when I owned my own business in the 80′s. If you liked the images and fully understand them then you also know that the person that created them does not have the point of view of a scam artist.

Anyway wiser heads than yours are prevailing and the test track you are suggesting (Our intention all along to start with one) will be started once the hearings are through.

In the end ask yourself if there are any other non hydrocarbon based proposals out there, how we solve the problems before us without a radical departure from the current paths, what such a program would look like in its nacent stages and what happens if people like you happened to succeed and kill the ideal that would work by offering an opinion that was wrong.

I know things have been rough for the last couple of decades, but hopefully MI still has enough self respect to not fall for this kind of crap.

I wasn’t being sarcastic. The parts of the video that aren’t hilarious are sad.

BTW, did I mention that I work for a contractor at Kennedy Space Center?

No but your Linkedin page does. I hope InDyne is very happy with your work. The photos on your personal website are stunning. . . it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that Interstate Traveler is a scam.

I have 45 years of experience dealing with grifters and scam artists. I can smell one at 50 yards. The only people in that two hours of meeting that directly answered simple questions was the guy from Michigan DOT and poor Javier. Javier looked very very uncomfortable. At least he was honest, when asked if any of the work he is familiar with is ready to be used he answered that “it needs more development”

You’ve claimed that it’s fully engineered. Fine, some one can click on a few things in the CAD program and produce some drawings, one that don’t look like some weird amalgam of Popular Science circa 1965, a Dianetics brochure and stuff lifted from PRT sites.

There’s been lots of claims that it uses existing technology. And that investors are chomping at the bit to invest. Fine take some of that existing technology and some of that investor money and produce a test track. Not even a test track but a test bed that demonstrate the vehicle you are proposing can move. Not at high speed but at any speed.

Funny, you never did make a valid point, just spewed a bunch of vitriol! I hope your ego was gratified!

Sadly, your sarcasm indicates that you are out of ideas!

In the end I think you have done us a great favor because anyone who objectively looks at our conversation and follows the links will know that we have done our homework and our opponents, represented by the likes of you, have not!

Good luck with the wiring! Watch out for the LN2…its really cold! And please, write a paper on Gnat Fart energy specifics, I have some propulsion engineer friends at work that would love to read it…..and laugh!

BTW, did I mention that I work for a contractor at Kennedy Space Center? Interstate Traveler has engineers involved from all different disciplines all over the country including Hydrogen specialists and also Instrumentation Specialists like me. Some work on space vehicles others on more terrestrial systems. I have built data collection systems, Specialized camera systems, Optical systems for tracking telescopes and even developed, built and flew my own airplane. I am responsible for my companies electrical compliance with C1 D2 B (Hydrogen) environments and design equipment to be used in those environments. With all that in mind,if Interstate Traveler has a fatal flaw its pretty well hidden cause my 35 +years of experience engineering and building complex systems hasn’t found it!

Oh well enough time invbested here, since you obviously have nothing further to offer I will bid you adieu’

If I ever find a transcript I’ll go through and identify all the ….jokes.. Or I’ll save it off and edit them into the really funny parts.

1) The link to the hearings is:

http://lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090615/NEWS01/90612002&template=mogulus

His name is Javier Rodriguez

The thinfilm superconductors are not what we would use look for the distribution cable. American Superconductors system is
found here:
http://www.amsc.com/products/htswire/HTSCables.html

If you have geo thermal or solar heat then you can use it to do reforming but that was not my point it was that you are cracking a hydrocarbon that is of limited supply and modern solar panels make it a moot point!

Congratulations you were paying attention! I mis typed the solar area per mile (thought I put in the correct number 82,400 st ft / mile but left off the 8 by accident) Nice catch and you now realize why we use the rail cap as a solar generator!

Your number of 1Kw per M^2 is correct rerun the numbers compensating for my typo and you will see my point! BTW we are proposing 12% efficiency panels because it is conservative, 19% panels are available and 30% panels are on the way so by the time we are up and running the numbers could vastly improve especially with new thinfilm printed cells.

Throughput efficiencies sunlight to repower through the H2 cycle are 25-37% but solar power is free after infrastructure costs and H2 turbines are extremely efficient and are in that figure. We think we can get the high number easily but quote the range to be safe.

What about the bonus question?

I tried to find it. I searched for “interstate traveler” and found a few crude animations on YouTube. I searched the Michigan legislature site. I’m sure Interstate Traveler has a copy of it, they can put it YouTube like their other videos. Unless their executive vice president in charge of media relations is off at summer camp. I’m sure he’s excited about starting high school in the fall.

Ya got a link? This director, he got a name?

If you want to keep a tank of LN2

When the tank is full I keep 200 pounds of propane around the house – just outside it, near the kitchen range. I’d keep the liquid nitrogen near the Dewar flask the superconductor is in. It would be much easier to manage that than on a moving train. Or under a moving train. It’s not clear if Interstate Traveler is going to be using the superconductors for the magnets in the train or for the power line embedded in the conduit under the sewer line.

The smallest they make is 4/0MCM so good luck pulling it through your attic

The pictures on their website show a thin film. it has a shipping weight of 3 pounds per hundred meters. They sell so much of it the minimum order is 500 meters though they are willing to sell in shorter lengths.

connecting it to the outlets will be a pain

According to their website low temperature solder works well. The husband is handy with a soldering iron.

You have to burn coal to generate electricity to run the reformer to crack the gas.

With over 1 megawatt (*2,400 sq ft of solar panel) per hour per mile of track during ensolation hours,

In round numbers. . .
One square meter of ideal insolation yields approximately one kilowatt per hour at sea level. 2400 square feet of collector comes out to approximately 222 square meters or 222,000 thousand watts. Since a mile is 5280 feet long 2400 square feet of collector seems a bit low to me. Unless the conduit under the the trains is only 6 inches wide, because they appear to be covered in photovoltaic cells in the drawings.

If I remember correctly theoretical maximum conversion is 33 percent. So 333 watts a square meter. Last I read they were hoping to get efficiency up to 20 % or 200 watts per square meter. 200 watts a square meter comes out to roughly 20 watts a square foot. Lets go for 25 watts a square foot, you need 40000 square feet. to get a megawatt. Again in round numbers, that’s an 8 foot long collector for every foot of track. 40,000 square feet of collector shouldn’t be a problem. I woulda thought a tool and die maker would be better at calculating things like this.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-nehr/6/b03/557

We don’t use grid power we make grid power! …

How much power do you lose in the conversion to hydrogen? It’s not 100 % efficient. You gain efficiency by selling what you produce – electricity – as electricity. The turbines are less than 100% efficient. How does conversion to hydrogen and then burning the hydrogen compare to storing the electricity in super capacitors or plain old batteries? You’d get better conversion efficiencies if you shipped the electricity as electricity to a pumped storage facility and generated peak and nighttime electricity that way.