B-W SCMaglev Project Home Page
12 weeks ago by asteroza
Trying to put a japanese maglev in the US...
maglev
train
railroad
railway
12 weeks ago by asteroza
The Black Swan Blog » Funicular Power – Newton’s Apple to the rescue
june 2018 by asteroza
Funicular railway as a potential energy store is an interesting variation on the theme. This article basically describes ARES, but what about cable funicular railways? That would put the big motor/generator at the bottom station and make most if not all the cargo cars dumb and low cost. Either that, or go whole hog with an abt cog railway for even steep slopes...
cable
funicular
railway
gravity
energy
storage
green
june 2018 by asteroza
Railway Challenge - IMechE
march 2018 by asteroza
A university design competition for trains?
education
learning
design
competition
railway
railroad
locomotive
vehicle
transportation
infrastructure
training
train
march 2018 by asteroza
Mail Rail
february 2015 by asteroza
They're resurrecting the London mail tube trains as a tourist attraction for the postal museum, but they won't be using all of the old track (0.6 out of 23 miles).
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england
london
postal
post
tube
mail
rail
underground
narrow
guage
railway
railroad
subway
vehicle
transportation
amusement
history
Delicious
february 2015 by asteroza
Locked-on lasers burn through leaves on train lines - tech - 03 December 2014 - New Scientist
december 2014 by asteroza
Please please, put the prototype on a shark nosed Baldwin...
laser
rail
leaves
debris
removal
train
locomotive
transportation
railway
railroad
technology
research
LaserThor
Delicious
december 2014 by asteroza
Large Flywheel Ready to Store Power at 1MW Solar Plant - News - Solar Power Plant Business
march 2014 by asteroza
I'm assuming this isn't a carbon fiber flywheel...
superconducting
bearing
flywheel
energy
storage
hardware
electronics
devices
research
technology
pancake
magnet
battery
railroad
railway
Delicious
march 2014 by asteroza
Electricity and Power Storage - Ares North America
august 2013 by asteroza
Someone is finally getting around to implementing heavy electric trains on long grades as a gird energy storage system. Though admittedly the current system is smaller scale and for load leveling a wind power plant, and using narrow gauge rail along with a third rail in rural settings seems like a poor choice in the long term. Concept is sound, but having individual motor/generator cars is an interesting compromise. As long as the primary weight can be provided by cheap gravel, I suppose it doesn't matter.
railroad
electric
green
potential
leveling
railway
ARES
rail
grid
train
power
generator
load
energy
storage
gravity
concrete
gravel
battery
Delicious
august 2013 by asteroza
Linear turbine propulsion system - Google Patents
july 2011 by asteroza
Ow this hurts my head. Unwrap a rotary gas turbine, stick the stators/vanes on the track and the rotors on the vehicle, then burn baby burn!
US
patent
5669308
linear
turbine
reaction
rail
propulsion
system
technology
catapult
levitation
track
design
railroad
railway
accelerator
monorail
Delicious
july 2011 by asteroza
Solar Frontier Supplies CIS Solar Panels
september 2010 by asteroza
Apparently this is a long linear solar panel array built on top of a maglev train test track, creating a dual use infrastructure that can demo for other dual use infrastructure projects. Certainly clears the siting requirements and I guess qualifies as a brownfield development...
japan
linear
solar
panel
array
power
generator
green
energy
rail
railroad
railway
infrastructure
dual
use
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september 2010 by asteroza
China Planning to Connect High Speed Rail Lines To Europe | Inhabitat
march 2010 by asteroza
Interesting talk of trading raw materials from partner countries for Chinese financing. Looks like China is still on a materials acquisition spree...
China
Europe
high
speed
railway
railroad
transportation
network
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march 2010 by asteroza
Asiajin » “Koe-tan”, A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo
october 2009 by asteroza
Voice search enabled iPhone app to do transit searches for metro Tokyo. I thought the InFerret guys were all over this but I guess not...
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iPhone
tokyo
public
transit
railway
railroad
JR
subway
voice
speech
recognition
search
lookup
software
app
japan
Novauris
Delicious
october 2009 by asteroza
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