Parrahub and Sydney to Melbourne Maglev via Canberra

[Toffler]

Why do you want to get trucks off the road? You're manifesting an imaginary problem to justify this strange 'solution' of yours.

[eddy]

Why do you want to get trucks off the road? You're manifesting an imaginary problem to justify this strange 'solution' of yours.

If each overnight train can take 100 containers which are loaded through the day and taken between Sydney and Melbourne faster and cheaper it must make a difference to productivity and the planet.

It allows daytime trains to replace planes and can earn $12b p/a connecting Snowy 2 with HVDC cables in the tunnel.

[eddy]

Eddy,

You wrote yesterday:
East Timor would be happy with FIFO workers being paid $2,500 per fortnight or when they drive 200m and living in shipping containers at the 30 separate company launch sites.

$2,500 per fortnight - That's $32 per hour. *based on 2 x 38 hr weeks

In September you wrote:
These 60 FIFO East Timorese teams would be happy living in the 30 launch shaft compounds in shipping containers making $5,000 for two weeks or when they drive 200 metres completing the 600 kilometres in two years.

$5,000 per fortnight - That was $65.00 per hour.

So, costs have now gone down?
How did you achieve that?
Preparing to pay $2,500 per week and then some months later being prepared to pay $1,250 per week for the exact same position is a great saving!
By the way, any non East Timorese's performing the same jobs and being provided with on-site lodgings would have to be paid (in accordance with Australian law) the same as the East Timorese and also accomodated in shipping containers.

Yesterday, you also wrote:
Malcolm Turnbull would be happy to power the SC maglev from snowy 2.

Has this gentleman actually responded to you - bearing in mind that you only wrote to him this week?. Does this gentleman actually work for "Snowy 2" and therefore have some managerial control over who it supplies?

I apologise to PG1 where I went from $5,000 to $2,500 per fortnight but as there were many people who thought I wanted slave labour I only wanted the average for FIFO workers of about $100,000 p/a which is around the $5,000 per fortnight.

[eddy]

Greenpeace said on TV that they plan to step up protests on fossil fuels and I think the federal government can cut a deal they will not protest for three years while the Japanese SC maglev is built removing trucks and planes between Sydney and Melbourne.

[eddy]

Surface HSR has too many problems particularly in a democracy where everyone either wants a station at their front door or NIMBYS and greens do not want it and to top it off true HSR cannot take freight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svLJWcc23HE

[eddy]

This is what I asked Brendan Hasty

To make a true multiple use building I have drawn Parrahub building and underground carpark 300m diameter to allow shops and services in the centre of the large units, is it too big.

Parrahub 30,000 space carpark on your phone. https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

Parrahub 5,000 units above on your phone. https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

[eddy]

Many parts of the developed world have built accommodation for low skilled people which have developed into slums with much unemployment and crime.

To avoid this it is important that there is a mix of ages, races, religions and incomes while keeping the Parrahub building the best value in Sydney with services, transport, shops, free 30,000 fat car spaces and a station at the bottom that eventually will connect to Melbourne via Canberra and Albury and Brisbane via Newcastle and Coffs Harbour.

As all fees and maintenance will be covered by the shops in the centre the earthquake proof and flood proof building that is designed to last 200 years will stay as new for the full lifetime.

[eddy]

Still top comment here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUcV_nxsWY&t=4s

[eddy]

Hyperloop stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqSCdAnJjg

I doubt if this guy was even born when in 1997 the Japanese SC maglev was proven the equivalent of over 80 times around the world with passengers and all we have to do is use modern double shield hardrock TBM to eliminate trucks and planes on that route with overnight container trains.

There is twice the maintenance with wheels and half the speed.

[eddy]

As nothing like Parrahub has been built before it is very hard to cost like the Sydney Opera House that ended up costing 14 times the original cost and the most important thing is there is no cost overruns and everybody gets paid handsomely.

Having economies of scale the 30,000 space underground carpark would cost $1b, the 5,000 units above about $2b, the shops in the centre $2b plus land $1b with a total of $6b.

The 5,000 units at $2m would total $10b so it would stack up with the shops in the centre paying for all maintenance and fees so the residents would have the best value in Sydney with the 30,000 free fat car parking spaces and eventually a train to Canberra, Albury and Melbourne south with an eventual train north to Newcastle, Coffs Harbour and Brisbane.

$2m seems like too much off the plan but as it would take 5 years to build many overseas buyers would consider it a good investment for their retirement and will avoid the housing problem by waiting until it iis finished before coming to Australia.

[eddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH9-0AbR_1U&t=1s

At 5.35 Rosie said it had cost $1b to install the HVDC cable in the tunnel with 100% return in one year for 50 km therefore connecting Snowy 2 would earn $12b p/a so adding the $2b p/a from the overnight container train and $2b p/a from daytime fares there is no way planes and trucks can compete with the Japanese SC maglev monopoly.

For all the climate change deniers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlJc2daBn0

[eddy]

Brenden Hasty sent me an email that he will be at the IStructE Council Meeting in London on the 18th & 19th of January to attend the Council Meeting. Let me know if you are also coming, it'd be good to catch up in person. 

As I cannot go overseas I asked him the following.

As nothing like Parrahub has been built before it is very hard to cost like the Sydney Opera House that ended up costing 14 times the original cost and the most important thing is there is no cost overruns and everybody gets paid handsomely.

Having economies of scale the 30,000 space underground carpark would cost $1b, the 5,000 units above about $2b, the shops in the centre $2b plus land $1b with a total of $6b.

The 5,000 units at $2m would total $10b so it would stack up with the shops in the centre paying for all maintenance and fees so the residents would have the best value in Sydney with the 30,000 free fat car parking spaces and eventually a train to Canberra, Albury and Melbourne south with an eventual train north to Newcastle, Coffs Harbour and Brisbane.

[eddy]

According to the TV Sydney is short of water and so I thought it may be an idea to also put a water pipe in the tunnel so we could take water to where it is needed.

[Fleet Lists]

Sydney Short of Water??? Not according to the figures I just looked at. https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/ns ... dam-levels

And even if it was where would you get the water to put in the pipe to run to Sydney?

And a little facetious Why dont you also run a road through the tunnel and fly planes through it?

[eddy]

Sydney Short of Water??? Not according to the figures I just looked at. https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/ns ... dam-levels

And even if it was where would you get the water to put in the pipe to run to Sydney?

And a little facetious Why dont you also run a road through the tunnel and fly planes through it?

ABC said that today and I just thought it may be a good idea to pump water to wherever it is needed.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-23/ ... /103007112

[Fleet Lists]

From where?

[eddy]

From where?

I don't know if it would even be viable but I would rather drink water from somewhere with an excess or maybe even Snowy 2

[eddy]

On another forum I was asked why so many parking spots to which I answered this.

After Parrahub is connected to Melbourne via Canberra and Albury it will be connected to Brisbane via Newcastle and Coffs Harbour so it needs to be 100m deep to go beneath Parramatta river.

This means there will be car parking for 30,000 fat cars which will be used by residents, workers and commuters who catch a train.

Japan will supply the SC maglevs and the FIFO East Timor workers will get the same pay as Australian workers with the ability to go home when they drive 200m even though they will still get two weeks pay.

[eddy]

It is nearly impossible to have overhead transmission lines in Australia and to put HVDC cables underground it costs ten times as much and going beneath suburbs it can cost twenty times as much as it has to be in a tunnel.

Rosie said at 5.30 the HVDC cable they put in the tunnel connecting France to Britain cost $1b for 50 km and made 100% profit in one year so 600km would cost $12b with an income of $12b p/a and fund managers from all over the world would forget about fossil fuels and try to get a far greater return.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH9-0AbR_1U&t=7s

At $2,000 per container for 100 containers on ten overnight container trains is 10 x 100 x $2,000 x 365 = $730,000,000 p/a

Daytime fares of 1,000,000 people at $100 per person =$100,000,000 p/a

The overnight train and daytime fares are nothing compared to the HVDC cables income and as it goes directly under Snowy 2 it could also have a water pipe to save us drinking recycled water in Sydney.

Who knows how it will pan out with funds fighting to invest so it will cost the Fed nothing.

The reason I said $5b for each launch site is to encourage FIFO teams from all over the world to compete.

As it has to be a straight tunnel all double shield hard rock TBM must be able to penetrate any ground they encounter by probing ahead and predrive grouting where needed.

This saves unreliable surface drilling and makes economy of scale with the TBM identical.

[eddy]

A month ago I met an electrician who is putting charging stations in and he told me many people say that hydrogen will be the future fuel and also it looks like NSW will replace the bridge at Gundagai so A doubles can use it so I thought the NHVR should know about the Japanese SC maglev so I sent them the following email to which they replied it is not for them to choose what fuel is used.

There is much debate about if trucks between Sydney and Melbourne will be battery or hydrogen but I believe we will have an underground Japanese SC maglev that earns $2m per overnight at $2,000 per container allowing electric prime movers to deliver directly to the customer faster and cheaper than any truck from freight sidings on the outskirts.

[eddy]

Rather than fighting the farmers and greenies why not put the HVDC cables in the Sydney to Melbourne via Canberra and Albury tunnel that goes directly under Snowy 2.

By connecting to Snowy 2 it can power the Japanese SC maglev also.

[eddy]

Now the EU farmers are protesting it will be even harder to sell to them.

As I said before we need China as much as they need us so NOW is the time to buy the 60 TBM and balance our trade and as a good customer we will call the shots better than threatening to blockade them again with a nuclear submarine.

[eddy]

It would be far better to just put the HVDC cables from Snowy 2 in the Parrahub to Melbourne via Canberra and Albury tunnel than fighting with the farmers over the transmission lines.

[eddy]

After watching this video perhaps bricks and mortar are making a comeback particularly if shops can have consignment stock that is delivered cheaply in trucks rather than many people just existing delivering to the door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNktc1Ppi6A

This would be good for Parrahub with so much free parking residents and commuters alike would ensure many customers who want it there and then.

[eddy]

To enable Snowy 2 to put the HVDC cables directly below the Parrahub to Melbourne via Canberra and Albury tunnel it must be started now to avoid expensive overhead transmission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaUw8U1URCI