1 / 13

LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERGROUND PIPELINE-CAPSULE FOOD FREIGHT TRANSPORT, TO REDUCE CO2

kamea
Download Presentation

LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERGROUND PIPELINE-CAPSULE FOOD FREIGHT TRANSPORT, TO REDUCE CO2

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Hello etc …I would first like to thank the University of Saint Andrews for the opportunity to present FOODTUBES, a Stop-Global-Warming project – and to thank CONOCO-Phillips for sponsoring the event – and to say how thrilled my colleagues and I are to be in this final round. – so Thank you for this opportunity. Society transports huge amounts of water, oil and gas through pipelines – cheaply, quietly, efficiently, safely …and through urban and rural areas; and dangerous wilderness regions. If water and oil were transported by road instead of pipelines, every country in the world would be hopelessly gridlocked. FOODTUBES proposes that we also transport food - and other goods - in pipelines; carried through the pipelines in lightweight capsules – …Carbon-fibre capsules, which are two meters long and one meter high. The plan is to build profitable, local, pipeline systems – of an average 150 km – which eventually link to create a national network. Hello etc …I would first like to thank the University of Saint Andrews for the opportunity to present FOODTUBES, a Stop-Global-Warming project – and to thank CONOCO-Phillips for sponsoring the event – and to say how thrilled my colleagues and I are to be in this final round. – so Thank you for this opportunity. Society transports huge amounts of water, oil and gas through pipelines – cheaply, quietly, efficiently, safely …and through urban and rural areas; and dangerous wilderness regions. If water and oil were transported by road instead of pipelines, every country in the world would be hopelessly gridlocked. FOODTUBES proposes that we also transport food - and other goods - in pipelines; carried through the pipelines in lightweight capsules – …Carbon-fibre capsules, which are two meters long and one meter high. The plan is to build profitable, local, pipeline systems – of an average 150 km – which eventually link to create a national network.

    2. FOODTUBES is a major civil engineering proposal …and a huge change …and a massive investment. So - why spend the money? It hardly matters “who or what caused global warming?” The key questions now are : “Are the ice-caps really melting? and can science slow the process?” YES! The icecaps are melting - and YES! Mankind can slow the process. When to move uphill? The European Geosciences Union conference last month (Apr 08), fears that the ice-caps are melting far faster than does the current report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which relies on 2005 data. …And up to date forecasts of sea level rises are now given in metres; …and no longer in centimetres.FOODTUBES is a major civil engineering proposal …and a huge change …and a massive investment. So - why spend the money? It hardly matters “who or what caused global warming?” The key questions now are : “Are the ice-caps really melting? and can science slow the process?” YES! The icecaps are melting - and YES! Mankind can slow the process. When to move uphill? The European Geosciences Union conference last month (Apr 08), fears that the ice-caps are melting far faster than does the current report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which relies on 2005 data. …And up to date forecasts of sea level rises are now given in metres; …and no longer in centimetres.

    3. We have assembled a world-class team to design the Blueprints – both Civil Engineering Blueprints and Business Structure Plans. These experts cannot afford to give up their day jobs to work on FOODTUBES. The project needs R&D funding to move ahead rapidly. The team’s main design and commercial task is to ensure, through licensing, that all the franchises can transport each other’s cargos – anywhere in the World. The FOODTUBES team will create the necessary global standards. The tubes and the capsules and the power and guidance systems and the tracking systems have to be standardised worldwide. These standards will be applied by a governing non-profit body. We have assembled a world-class team to design the Blueprints – both Civil Engineering Blueprints and Business Structure Plans. These experts cannot afford to give up their day jobs to work on FOODTUBES. The project needs R&D funding to move ahead rapidly. The team’s main design and commercial task is to ensure, through licensing, that all the franchises can transport each other’s cargos – anywhere in the World. The FOODTUBES team will create the necessary global standards. The tubes and the capsules and the power and guidance systems and the tracking systems have to be standardised worldwide. These standards will be applied by a governing non-profit body.

    4. This is my background. I have practical experience of engineering, accountancy, business innovation, Teleworking and business travel …And project planning & management. …I have written about the social, economic and environmental impacts of business travel and transport – and global warming. …and most specific to this project – I worked on fuel-efficient prototype vehicles – such as Microdot, the little green car in the upper right hand corner of this slide. This is my background. I have practical experience of engineering, accountancy, business innovation, Teleworking and business travel …And project planning & management. …I have written about the social, economic and environmental impacts of business travel and transport – and global warming. …and most specific to this project – I worked on fuel-efficient prototype vehicles – such as Microdot, the little green car in the upper right hand corner of this slide.

    5. 30 to 50 of the blue cylinders – are equivalent to one of the blue rectangular boxes – they represent our capsules …and the largest permitted HGV. Boxes of Cornflakes are transported in 44 tonne, 35 ft long HGVs – 98% of the fuel moves the vehicle – just 2% moves the Cornflakes. The weight of UK food transported every day is from 80 to 100 thousand tonnes; utilising 25% of all road and street freight vehicles. The volume of shelf foods is about 1.5 million cubic metres a day. More than 650,000 road vehicles are used – contributing to traffic congestion. (ref – 697,880 HGVs and vans) In contrast : The UK transports 18.6 million tonnes of water a day (in & out) – about 200 times the weight of our food. …moved with little pollution and little energy, securely and silently through pipelines – day and night, 365 days a year. After water oil and gas – food is, by weight, the next most common daily cargo. But it is the volume – the cubic capacity of packaged food – that dictates lorry space and cargo handling. 30 to 50 of the blue cylinders – are equivalent to one of the blue rectangular boxes – they represent our capsules …and the largest permitted HGV. Boxes of Cornflakes are transported in 44 tonne, 35 ft long HGVs – 98% of the fuel moves the vehicle – just 2% moves the Cornflakes. The weight of UK food transported every day is from 80 to 100 thousand tonnes; utilising 25% of all road and street freight vehicles. The volume of shelf foods is about 1.5 million cubic metres a day. More than 650,000 road vehicles are used – contributing to traffic congestion. (ref – 697,880 HGVs and vans) In contrast : The UK transports 18.6 million tonnes of water a day (in & out) – about 200 times the weight of our food. …moved with little pollution and little energy, securely and silently through pipelines – day and night, 365 days a year. After water oil and gas – food is, by weight, the next most common daily cargo. But it is the volume – the cubic capacity of packaged food – that dictates lorry space and cargo handling.

    6. Road & rail transport lobbyists argue that it MUST be cheaper to use the existing roads and railways, because the infrastructure already exists. (ref – discussions with Carrefour) But it is not cheaper. New lanes for the M25 London ring-road are currently costing $US 28 million per kilometer. And they will need costly repairs within 5 years. New FOODTUBES pipelines will cost $US 5 million per kilometer – and, according to British Gas, they last for 50 years or more. That’s many times less expensive. The health and social costs of UK food transport, excluding the direct transport costs, are $US 18 billion a year. (ref - AEA Technology – 2002 for DEFRA) (NB – polyethylene pipes bury carbon but tarmac & tyres continually release a toxic carbon dust as they wear out.) FOODTUBES could also be installed in 3rd world countries; to take farm produce to markets. They will help to secure food supplies and deliver emergency relief. The pipelines are as secure as oil and gas pipes …and roadways. (ref. GAZPROM securely operate 250,000 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines through remote regions.) We have put a farm-to-market proposal, for Argentina, to the World Bank. Road & rail transport lobbyists argue that it MUST be cheaper to use the existing roads and railways, because the infrastructure already exists. (ref – discussions with Carrefour) But it is not cheaper. New lanes for the M25 London ring-road are currently costing $US 28 million per kilometer. And they will need costly repairs within 5 years. New FOODTUBES pipelines will cost $US 5 million per kilometer – and, according to British Gas, they last for 50 years or more. That’s many times less expensive. The health and social costs of UK food transport, excluding the direct transport costs, are $US 18 billion a year. (ref - AEA Technology – 2002 for DEFRA) (NB – polyethylene pipes bury carbon but tarmac & tyres continually release a toxic carbon dust as they wear out.) FOODTUBES could also be installed in 3rd world countries; to take farm produce to markets. They will help to secure food supplies and deliver emergency relief. The pipelines are as secure as oil and gas pipes …and roadways. (ref. GAZPROM securely operate 250,000 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines through remote regions.) We have put a farm-to-market proposal, for Argentina, to the World Bank.

    7. FOODTUBES can be installed relatively quickly. Transport for London (TfL) asked us for an example of an inner London area served by FOODTUBES. We chose Croydon – 130,000 households. ( 129,164 households) Croydon has more than 80 food outlets and one large farm of 5,000 acres. This hectic map indicates the food and goods lorries delivering to shops. Including schools, colleges, public terminals and multiple tubes in large shops – the Croydon FOODTUBES system will have up to 400 terminals – to receive goods and to export waste. You may be aware of TfL’s programme to reduce diesel fumes and road congestion from HGVs and vans by setting up the London Emission Zone (LEZ), which encourages inefficient diesel vehicles to stop at the M25. Our FOODTUBES proposal for Croydon may be pushing at a policy open door.FOODTUBES can be installed relatively quickly. Transport for London (TfL) asked us for an example of an inner London area served by FOODTUBES. We chose Croydon – 130,000 households. ( 129,164 households) Croydon has more than 80 food outlets and one large farm of 5,000 acres. This hectic map indicates the food and goods lorries delivering to shops. Including schools, colleges, public terminals and multiple tubes in large shops – the Croydon FOODTUBES system will have up to 400 terminals – to receive goods and to export waste. You may be aware of TfL’s programme to reduce diesel fumes and road congestion from HGVs and vans by setting up the London Emission Zone (LEZ), which encourages inefficient diesel vehicles to stop at the M25. Our FOODTUBES proposal for Croydon may be pushing at a policy open door.

    8. GOOGLE EARTH helps us see how a FOODTUBES system might be laid to intercept cargo’s at Ports and the M25 …and transfer them into capsules to be sent into Croydon by pipeline. It will also transport other goods - with public terminals for small shops and suppliers. (As a wealth distribution measure, the households in the “Planning Gain Area”, which enjoys the reduced traffic flows, will each be issued with shares in these highly profitable operating franchises - which could be publicly or privately owned. It is important to have public support for FOODTUBES.) The key to rapid deployment across the UK, is by linking all such 150 km “local” separate systems, with a total of 20,000 kilometers of pipelines – creating a national interactive network, not unlike the Internet. People who live next door to a region enjoying less traffic may well agitate for their own local FOODTUBES system. GOOGLE EARTH helps us see how a FOODTUBES system might be laid to intercept cargo’s at Ports and the M25 …and transfer them into capsules to be sent into Croydon by pipeline. It will also transport other goods - with public terminals for small shops and suppliers. (As a wealth distribution measure, the households in the “Planning Gain Area”, which enjoys the reduced traffic flows, will each be issued with shares in these highly profitable operating franchises - which could be publicly or privately owned. It is important to have public support for FOODTUBES.) The key to rapid deployment across the UK, is by linking all such 150 km “local” separate systems, with a total of 20,000 kilometers of pipelines – creating a national interactive network, not unlike the Internet. People who live next door to a region enjoying less traffic may well agitate for their own local FOODTUBES system.

    9. This next system is in southern England – in Hampshire – just north of the Southampton docks…This next system is in southern England – in Hampshire – just north of the Southampton docks…

    10. For a RURAL example; we took TESCO’s proposed warehouse complex at Andover Airport, which would generate 1,680 HGV journeys every 24 hours, 364 days a year - on the already overburdened A303 and A34 roadways. A FOODTUBES system could relieve the Hampshire roads – while enabling the extra employment from this development. For a RURAL example; we took TESCO’s proposed warehouse complex at Andover Airport, which would generate 1,680 HGV journeys every 24 hours, 364 days a year - on the already overburdened A303 and A34 roadways. A FOODTUBES system could relieve the Hampshire roads – while enabling the extra employment from this development.

    11. This shows a possible FOODTUBES system around Andover, of 236 km, intercepting the freight and relieving ALL the roads within the loop – which could also protect Stonehenge. The £100 million pounds, (or $200M US dollars), a year FOODTUBES profits of the Hampshire franchise are based on charging a very competitive £6 to £8 ($12 to $16 dollars) per cargo-capsule delivery. This is 5 times less than by road and rail. To get franchises built, operating and interacting quickly, it is important that they are profitable for the owners and are useful to the public. This shows a possible FOODTUBES system around Andover, of 236 km, intercepting the freight and relieving ALL the roads within the loop – which could also protect Stonehenge. The £100 million pounds, (or $200M US dollars), a year FOODTUBES profits of the Hampshire franchise are based on charging a very competitive £6 to £8 ($12 to $16 dollars) per cargo-capsule delivery. This is 5 times less than by road and rail. To get franchises built, operating and interacting quickly, it is important that they are profitable for the owners and are useful to the public.

    12. Copies of this presentation are available: Email to: noel@noelhodson.com and refer to The St. Andrew’s Prize Or download to your computer from http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/F-Tubes-StAndrews-1-5-08v7-short.ppt Or GOOGLE search for “ FOODTUBES ” and click on the above link Copies of this presentation are available: Email to: noel@noelhodson.com and refer to The St. Andrew’s Prize Or download to your computer from http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/F-Tubes-StAndrews-1-5-08v7-short.ppt Or GOOGLE search for “ FOODTUBES ” and click on the above link

More Related