At 05:24 PM 3/10/2006, Dave Long wrote:
Where would *you* recommend?
Just look at my TLD (actions speak louder than ASCII). But based on
the data points of SoCal, FL, and RSA, I bet you're more into warmth
and water than powder and plenty of vertical.
Warmth yes, water option, but desired.
More importantly, I want somewhere that the government and the
majority of the residents would qualify as sane.
Yes, I do understand that I need to look at other planets....
I'm involved with a study group that's working to design a Personal
Rapid Transit system. Recent developments in
GPS, wire guidance, and inductive-charging-in-motion make this
approach more approachable than in the past.
got an URL? I'm interested, but (despite all the silklist posting)
don't have any spare bandwidth.
At present, we're restricting access to those willing to become
involved with the process. Anyone reading this who has such an
interest should contact me off-list.
What skills do you all need?
Right now we need folks with skills at designing cabin interiors,
multi-cultural (much less multi-lingual) control interfaces, network
simulations, folks with a background in queuing theory, station
design, and presentation artwork. We don't plan to get into the
engineering beyond the feasibility level -- the target client has
those skills on staff.
There are some people in the ME dept. at the Uni here who are doing
a lot of work with inductive charging, and this application (large
loops, enough metal to prevent excess radiation) sounds like it
might could be right up their alley.
This turns out to be one of the simpler parts of the design. Several
vendors have suitable off-the-shelf products, and again the target
client has experience with the technology.
Anyone who has *tasted* genuine Florida wine knows that nothing
this side of a return to Prohibition would cause the local product
to sell to any but the most desperate.
OK, sunlight I'll grant. But neither "aspect", nor especially
"drainage", are words that come to mind when picturing Florida.
Maybe artificial hills, a la Ski Dubai? I'm getting a mental picture
of putting in some vines on the south face of EPCOT...
Turns out hills aren't required, and drainage can be fabricated. But
it rains way to much in Florida for decent grapes, plus the terroir
is all wrong.
* Udhay mentioned the problem of communicating how a slowly rising
temperature is threatening. There's a series up on billboards that
have those two-way prism elements, so as you walk past, it changes
from a ca. 1900 to a ca. 2000 photo of the same glacier -- only with
much more valley exposed in the recent picture. Pretty graphic.
Graphic it may be, but I fear our society is the proverbial frog in
the slowly boiling pot. My government certainly is.
Bruce
