[All] Solar Home of the Future, With EV in the Garage, Makes Debut + LRT Comments

[Robert Milligan]

It's potentially here now Derek -- worldwide! Too bad our local  
politicians promote so few leading-edge IDEAS -- and our developers  
are mostly innovation-averse! (Over 25 yrs. ago I helped catalyze --  
with cooperation of MPP John Sweeney & Sch. of Arch. Dir. Rick  
Haldenby -- the Waterloo Green Home. And nothing happened with  
developers!) Beyond our universities/'community college' (didn't those  
Conestoga engineering students do great?!) and hi-tech companies, do  
we just mostly pretend to be Pioneering Innovators? Kudos to Lancaster  
Calif. Mayor R. Rex Parris -- a conservative yet!
http://solarhbj.com/news/solar-home-of-future-makes-debut-in-california-0707

An Electric Vehicle (EV) world is rapidly approaching -- with LRT  
manufacturers starting to offer EV battery options. This is obviously  
because batteries are rapidly increasing in proven cost-effectiveness.  
But again our RTI project engineers -- in their great innovative  
wisdom -- are reluctant to explore how batteries (or a "convertible"  
diesel-electric hybrid first) could save approx. 1/4 the LRT system  
cost by not installing a catenary system initially -- and possibly  
never as batteries improve! Oh how irrational fear of failure can  
shift the brain to almost a chronic lower reptilian level (fight or  
flight response) robbing us of our potential intelligence!  If an LRT  
system design is to be approved by a now very wary Regional  
Councillors and citizens, then the RTI project engineers must somehow  
develop innovative courage -- sometimes miracles happen! Odds are  
their current non-citizen-involving (except after the fact) efforts  
will slightly reduce costs but do little for performance, especially  
real (c.f. pretended) traffic reduction.

Robert

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