Episode 17: Fringe enabled Vehicles

[BruceSheffer]

http://tritacsystems.podbean.com

This week we do part 1 of our study of what options for vehicles that actually can work on the Fringepaths. (Links will be added soon!)

1:09 Introduction: Fringe enabled vehicles. The problems and pitfalls.

2:09 In the beginning, we talk about the history of vehicles on the pathways.

2.31 Bicycles: Mountain, Touring bikes. Why bikes are easy to use on the pathways. You can carry much more and tow trailers. We mention Modular bikes and custom built bikes.

6:12 The Human Car.

8:00 Converting a railway car for the Fringe paths.

10:33 Walking, the ultimate travel method.

13:20 Flywheel storage vehicles. Traditional Flywheels. High Tech Flywheels. Gyrobuses, electric power.

19:03 Compressed Air vehicles. The Air Car. The City Car.

24:48 Wind Powered vehicle: The Wing Sail Car. Air Currents on the Fringe Path. Vento Mobile.

30:26 Time to travel doesn’t matter, unless it does. Especially when you’re being chased by Fringe Pirates.

33:36 Flying to the portal. Using a Sail Plane glider to travel. Or, get a flying squirrel suit and fly like Superman!

45:41 Steam Power! Victorians use steam power to travel the pathways. Steam buses, steam lorries. The Victorians use a custom built vehicles. You need to recycle the steam otherwise you run out of water. Steam car in a day. The Stanley Steamer.

54:24 Gas powered turbines. Limitations of using them on the pathways.

[zircher]

Just a thought on flywheels and compressed air, they're essentially batteries.  You do the work off of the fringe path with more efficent motors, store the potential energy, and then discharge it as motion.  Recharging at the distant end with low power sources like solar or wind would take a very long time.
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TAZ

[BruceSheffer]

thanks for your comment.  You are correct that these are batteries in that they can be recharged.

You can recharge on fringe using either a gravity motor, or cable motor.  In the latter case, it wouldn't take long at all since the portal pulls with 50 megatons of traction.  In the former case, it depends on how big and heavy your generator wheel is.

once you are off-fringe you could use a gasoline compressor to charge the tanks or spin up the flywheel as long as there weren't local laws forbidding it.