Solar powered transportation. By removing Parasitic Mass, mass not passenger or cargo, energy required to power transportation is radically reduced. Adding 6 feet of solar collectors per running foot of rail creates synergy between the distributed energy need of transportation with the distributed nature of solar power.
Problem: We are wasting energy and creating congestion moving a ton to move a person. Solution: Move only the person. Implementation: Build a Physical-Internet, a network of ultra-light rails and computer controlled vehicles to automate highly repetitive travel. Remove the Parasitic Mass, the mass we pay to move that is not passengers or cargo. Background: About 4 billion of the 8 billion miles Americans drive every day are highly repetitive; kids to and from school, shoppers to and from retai...