1. 1. Life Requires Energy Use NJ 2004-A2031 and Secaucus 2014-23 to make the Meadowlands the commercial center for retooling to sustainable infrastructure, for changing the lifeblood of America from oil to ingenuity.
2. 2. www.JPods.com Costs of Traffic - New Jersey Costs: Traffic costs in NJ are $35.8 billion/year $13.4 for gasoline $14.8 for accidents $8.6 for congestion Life Requires Energy Objectives Convert $23.8 billion/yr into profits/savings. Capture the $3.5 trillion ASCE requirement in the Meadowlands. Expand to a world market.
3. 3. www.JPods.com Economic Cluster Convert costs of $23.8 billion per year into revenues and customer savings using JPods Recruit other innovators to the Meadowlands
4. 4. Self-reliance Paradigm Shift Life Requires Energy The Stockdale Paradox(Admiral Stockdale from the book Good to Great) While facing the most brutal facts of our current reality. Unwavering faith that we will prevail. NJ 2004-A2031 and Secaucus Ordinance 2014-23 Change economic lifeblood from oil to ingenuity Establish a legal framework to prevail, to innovate. Brutal Facts Traffic costs the people of NJ $35.8 billion/year. Life requires energy. Oil is finite. Life on oil is terminal. US market size is $5 trillion, world is 5x. More of what is failing, will fail. JPods benefits: Mobility 10x, Energy 6x.
5. 5. NJ 2004-A2031 Life Requires Energy 2004-A2031: Framework of Economic Boom As new technologies have been made viable, the State has benefited from being an early adopter.... It is in the State's economic interest to investigate new types of service which may improve the usefulness and integration of existing platforms, provide fast, inexpensive travel options, reduce capital costs of projects, and reduce pollution from motor vehicle travel. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT).... According to the Federal Transit Administration, average capital cost per twoway mile for heavy rail is $150 million, and for light rail is $70 million. For operating cost per passenger mile: heavy rail is $1.20, light rail is $1.80.... The transportation system of New Jersey may benefit greatly from fostering a niche role for profitably managed rapid transit as a supplement to its current system. It is in the State's interest to consider the integration of PRT into its transportation system....
6. 6. Govern by Performance Standards www.JPods.com Secaucus Town Ordinance 2014-23 NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, non-exclusive assess to City rights-of-way may be granted to transportation systems providers meeting the following free market principles: (1) Privately funded construction; (2) Privately operated without government subsidies; (3) Exceed 120 passenger-miles per gallon, or equivalent efficiency; and (4) Exceed safety performance of transportation modes already approved for use. AND THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, regulation of free market innovations shall be based on: (1) System design, fabrication, installation, safety, insurance, inspection practices consistent with the ASTM International, Committee F24 on Amusement Rides and Devices; (2) Environmental approvals will be granted based on a ratio of energy consumed per passenger-mile of the innovation versus transport modes approved to operate in the rights-of-way; and (3) All taxes and fees assessed on the transport systems providers, passengers and cargo shall be limited to 5% of gross revenues and paid to the aggregate rights-of-way
7. 7. Wisdom of Edison Life Requires Energy Framework of Economic Boom Thomas Edison, 1910 "Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.... Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen...."
8. 8. Ride a horse, then harness it to a plow. Transportation is the Catalyst Transportation is the catalyst for changing energy systems: Sail a boat, then build a windmill. Paddle a canoe, then build a water wheel. Life Requires Energy Railroads, catalyst for the change from biofuels to fossil fuels in the 1860s.
9. 9. 10x Disruptive Innovation www.JPods.com Life Requires Energy 10xBuild with private capital. Privately operated at a profit.
10. 10. 10x Disruptive Innovation www.JPods.com NYC to San Francisco Ticket Cost: 1865: $1,000 1869: $ 67 Life Requires Energy 10x Build with private capital. Privately operated at a profit. Govt backed bonds only for operational rails.
11. 11. www.JPods.com Secaucus Law Life Requires Energy Ordinance 2014-23: Build with private capital Operate without govt subsidies Exceed 120 passenger-miles/gal Regulated by: ASTM F24 Theme Parks Environmental by ratio of energy per unit of economic work.
12. 12. www.JPods.com Secaucus: World Model Life Requires Energy
13. 13. www.JPods.com JPods: 10x Efficiency Gain Mode Passen gers/ve hicle BTU's Watt- hours Watt- hours FTE Gas mpg km/liter Diesel mpg km/liter passen ger- mile passeng er-km JPods 1.57 433 127 79 12 264.4 112.3 321 136.4 Van pool 6.1 1,322 389 242 36.6 86.6 44.7 105.1 44.7 Motorcycles 1.2 1,855 546 339 51.3 61.7 31.8 74.9 31.8 Rail, Amtrak 20.5 2,650 780 485 73.3 43.2 22.3 52.5 22.3 Rail, Transit (light&heavy) 22.5 2,784 819 509 77 41.1 21.2 49.9 21.2 Rail, Commuter 31.3 2,996 881 547 82.9 38.2 19.7 46.4 19.7 Air, domestic 96.2 3,261 959 596 90.2 35.1 18.1 42.6 18.1 Cars 1.57 3,512 1033 642 97.2 32.6 16.8 39.6 16.8 Personal trucks 1.72 3,944 1160 721 109.1 29 15 35.2 15 Bus, Transit 8.8 4,235 1246 774 117.2 27 13.9 32.8 13.9 Demand response 1 14,30 1 4207 2614 395.6 8 4.1 9.7 4.1 Life Requires Energy 10x
14. 14. www.JPods.com JPods: Solve Congestion Recovering $23.8 billion per year in revenue and savings requires about $78 billion over the next 6 years. Networks return their value about every 3 years. Life Requires Energy
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16. 16. Scaleable Robotics www.JPods.com Convert costs of $23.8 billion per year into revenues and customer savings using JPods
17. 17. JPods Networks www.JPods.com Convert costs of $23.8 billion per year into revenues and customer savings using JPods
18. 18. Station Animation www.JPods.com Convert costs of $23.8 billion per year into revenues and customer savings using JPods
19. 19. 3D Design www.JPods.com Convert costs of $23.8 billion per year into revenues and customer savings using JPods Place models into GoogleEarth
20. 20. The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) network built in Morgantown, WV has delivered 110 million oil-free, injury-free passenger-miles since opening in 1975. Build on Success $9.1 million saving of passenger travel time costs. $4.78 million in congestion costs. $5.78 million in operating costs ($260.2 million for buses - $144.5 for PRT over 20 years). 2,472 tons of CO2, or 12% of the emissions of buses. Note that Morgantowns PRT network achieves this savings with coal based electricity. JPods networks are solar powered. Pays for itself every 5 years compared with a bus network: Life Requires Energy
21. 21. Transportation is the Catalyst JPods will be the catalyst for changing energy systems from oil to solar. 10x conversion of energy costs to profits. 6x benefit in Net Energy of solar versus oil. Life Requires Energy
22. 22. Solar 6x Better than Oil Text Net Energy: Available energy relative to energy required to obtain that energy Solar Net Energy = 20 : 1 Oil Sands/Shale Net Energy = 3 : 1 Life Requires Energy
23. 23. Barrier: Federal Monopolies www.JPods.com Life Requires Energy
24. 24. Retooling an infrastructure typically requires 40 to 200 years. Sailing ships: two millennia Railroads: 125 years (1825 to 1950) Automobiles: 85 years (1885 to 1970) Internet: 36 years, (1969 to 2005) Cell Nets: 59 years (1946 to 2005) Urgency Life Requires Energy The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure grade: D+ Fixing costs $3.5 trillion by 2020. Congestion, potholes, oil-wars, pollution, etc... indicates we are not thinking even of tomorrow.
25. 25. US Peak Oil Extra energy required to re-tool for efficiency gains. Oil Famine Risks increase with Debts, Imports and Depletions Life Requires EnergyOil is Finite. Oil Famine
26. 26. Less Affordable, Less Life Life Requires Energy 7.33% Average Increase per Year since US Peak Oil in 1970 US Peak Oil 14.11% Average Increase per Year since China and India became significant oil importers in 1998 Data: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.cfm?t=ptb0524 Great Recession triggered Life requires energy. Less affordable energy, less life. Historical Price of a Tank of Gasoline (15 gallon) $61.65
27. 27. Data: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.cfm?t=ptb0524 Oil-economy is Terminal Life Requires Energy The economy nearly collapsed in Sept 2008 because people could not afford $4.11 gasoline and their mortgages. Riots in the streets will happen before energy prices ratchet higher than $10 a gallon. Life requires energy, life will fight for energy.
28. 28. Retooling an infrastructure typically requires 40 to 200 years. Sailing ships: three millennia Railroads: 125 years (1825 to 1950) Automobiles: 85 years (1885 to 1970) Internet: 36 years (1969 to 2005) Cell Nets: 59 years (1946 to 2005) Urgency Life Requires Energy According to the U.S. Energy Information Administrations (EIA) International Energy Outlook 2014, the global supply of crude oil, other liquid hydrocarbons, and biofuels is expected to be adequate to meet the world's demand for liquid fuels for at least the next 25 years.
29. 29. www.JPods.com Climate Change Life Requires Energy Change in multi-year sea ice.
30. 30. www.JPods.com Oil-wars since 1990 Life Requires EnergyTrading Soldiers Blood for Oil Congestion Help is need now No Money Mo 28,000 parking Feeders to existing
31. 31. Constitution Life Requires Energy To preempt a Federal repeat of the defects of the Kings transportation monopoly, on Sept 14, 1787 the Convention voted 8 states to 3 to restrict Federal involvement in infrastructure to no more than post Roads, no more than was required to defend free speech by assuring letters could be delivered. In 1787 the Constitution of the United States of America was submitted to the American people for ratification. Preamble is the Federal mission statement establishing Divided Sovereignty Mandating the Federal government provide defense of liberty. Restricting Federal involvement to only promote welfare. In 1791 the Bill of Rights was ratified with Amendments 9 and 10 restating the Divided Sovereignty of the Preamble.
32. 32. Liberty Life Requires Energy President Madisons veto of March 3, 1817 reaffirms Divided Sovereignty over welfare, specifically highways and canals "Having considered the bill this day presented to me entitled 'An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements,' and which sets apart and pledges funds 'for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses' . . . I am constrained by the insuperable difficulty I feel in reconciling the bill with the Constitution of the United States to return it with that objection to the House of Representatives. The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers."
33. 33. Civilization Killers Life Requires Energy Federal violation of the Constitutions Divided Sovereignty: 1918: Willson monopolized communications, and socialized power and transportation as natural monopolies. A century of rotary telephones until liberty was reestablished in 1982. 1935: FDRs Rural Electrification Administration removed self-reliance as a market force. Wiped out the entire distributed energy industry and forced the abandonment of about 600,000 windmills. Mandated burning coal and being tied to the grid to be economically competitive. Triggered Climate Change. 1956: Eisenhowers Federal-Aid Highways Act of 1956. Removed efficiency as a market force, wiping out nearly half the railroads. Urban sprawl and disenfranchising small local businesses. Transfer manufacturing overseas. Resource depletions, US Peak Oil was in 1970. $18 trillion in national debt increasing in tandem with oil imports. Oil-wars since 1990. Funding of Islamic Extremists terror attacks with oil-dollars. Amplifying Climate Change. Exposing the people of New Jersey to Oil Famine.
34. 34. Life Requires EnergyLiberty Restored in 1982 After the Federal communications monopoly was declared unconstitutional in 1982, with liberty to choose restored to the people, long dormant innovations of the Internet and radio telephone networks commercialized.
35. 35. Liberty Life Requires Energy Liberty to choose cleaner, faster, safer, and more affordable transportation infrastructure is sovereignty retained by the people. By 2021 convert NJs $35.8 billion/year traffic costs into $23.8 billion/year of profit and customer savings.