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FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob

FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob. California Bay Area Palo Alto. Our Community. Palo Alto. Cars Planes Trains Skateboards Ambulances Feet Bikes Boats Helicopters Motorcycles. How People move around. Caltrains BART Trains Amtrak

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FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob

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  1. FLL Project presentation By The Whatchamacallits: Peter, Aidan, Micah, and Jacob

  2. California • Bay Area • Palo Alto Our Community Palo Alto

  3. Cars • Planes • Trains • Skateboards • Ambulances • Feet • Bikes • Boats • Helicopters • Motorcycles How People move around

  4. Caltrains • BART Trains • Amtrak • Light Rail Trains in the bay area:

  5. Local Travel works well, has a few problems: • Safety • Pollution • Long distance travel: • Too many stops=too slow • Old tracks=slow • Only one trip each day from Northern CA to Southern CA • Not enough passengers, because of this! Problems with trains today

  6. Example Trip: Palo Alto to Anaheim California High Speed Rail

  7. It is very fast • It goes from San Francisco to Los Angeles In 2 ½ Hours. • Eco Friendly • Does not use gasoline • Electric • Very efficient • SAFE! • No grade crossings • Comfortable • Convenience • No Security checkpoints? • Stations Downtown • More Stations Advantages of High Speed Rail

  8. Loud • Ugly tracks • Ugly Wires • Divides neighborhoods • Expensive • Location of stations High-Speed Rail Problems

  9. An Example of a Neighborhood Dividing Wall:

  10. One Solution: • One solution to the problems with noise and looks is to create an underground tunnel • This will not divide neighborhoods, and won’t be ugly. We went to the high-speed rail workshop and found out that the cost of creating a tunnel was around $200-300 million per mile. This is too expensive, so we had to think of a new idea. Us with Joseph Bellomo, an architect who also had the raised- track idea.

  11. An elevated track with pillars to hold it up. • Allows foot traffic and cars to travel underneath it. • Can be designed attractively • Other communities have done this sort of project. Our solution to that problem

  12. Here is an example. A light rail from the Seattle Tacoma airport.

  13. We created a model of our raised-rail idea in Google Sketchup.

  14. Transparent sound baffles

  15. Our Model placed in Palo Alto

  16. The Second Part of the Problem • The next part of the problem is, what will they do for the power source. • There is... • Catenary wires, the wires that are above the train, which are ugly. • A third rail, which is very dangerous. • Gasoline, which is bad for the environment. • Electricity which is very cheap but hard to get to the train. • A fuel cell, which is extremely efficient but is very expensive. •     Out of all of these the fuel cell is the best choice... except for the cost.

  17. Here are some examples of ugly catenary wires

  18. Our solution to that  problem • Make the High speed train powered by Fuel cell, it only emits nitrogen and water. • No more Wires • Eco-Friendly • it is not ugly in any way. • Although, it costs just a bit more.

  19. One fuel cell locomotive concept running on liquid ammonia

  20. We Put it on our team website: • www.whatchamacallits.org • On November 8, we had a meeting with Palo Alto City Council Member • Mrs. YorikoKishimoto • She is a Board Member of Valley Transportation Authority How we shared our solution

  21. THANK YOU! …any questions? The Whatchamacallits

  22. Biblography • www.carbonify.com • http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail • http://www.energy.iastate.edu/Renewable/ammonia/ammonia/2006/VehicleProjects.pdf • http://www.trainnet.org/Libraries/Lib019/EUROSTAR.JPG

  23. Our Robot for FLL

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