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"Personal Rapid Transit" CPRT's David Gow Gives His Readers a Hotfoot
11.06.05 (12:36 pm)   [edit]
From Mr. Gow's blog http://davidgow.tblog.com

"Remember ***'s bizarre claim that PRT doesn't have heaters or air conditioning, seemingly unable to believe it could even be possible?

Well check out the new picture at SoundPRT. Scroll down and put your cursor on the picture of the silver-gray ULTra PRT vehicle. Look under the passenger seat. Why, those look like HVAC vents, don't they!? And look at this photo of the Skyweb interior. Right there, near the floor: another vent!"

If the HVAC vents were placed where Mr. Gow says they are, passengers would get a hotfoot!!! Here in Minnesota, the icebox of the nation, the mercury can drop thirty degrees below zero. When it gets that cold, the heater in a car needs to blast hot air not only at the passengers, but at the windscreen to keep the moisture from condensing and freezing on the surface. A vent placed only at floor level would be very uncomfortable to say the least.

It's easy to see how difficult it would be to keep condensation from freezing on pod's windscreen and melting when the pod warmed up... causing all kinds of moisture-related problems.

There's a simple way to settle this argument about the HVAC system in PRT pods-- Mr. Gow or any other PRTer can request photos and diagrams of the HVAC system of ULTra and Skyweb Express and post them on one of their web sites.

Learn more about PRT at the PRT is a Joke web site.





 


posted by: PRT_Punk (reply)
post date: 11.06.05 (1:14 pm)

"..and melting when the pod warmed up... causing all kinds of moisture-related problems."

Yes, it's obvious that the designers would not have thought about PRT operating in the rain.

*sarcasm off*






posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.06.05 (1:17 pm)

Yawn.....For a skeptic, you still haven't come up with a deal breaker, instead your assinine comments just further marginalize you.

http://atsltd.co.uk/media/papers/docs/BAA_ATS_statement.doc



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.06.05 (2:35 pm)

Bonehead, PRT is not a car. Why blow air at the windows if it is AUTOMATED and you don't need to see out? But warming the air inside will also keep the cabin shell warm enough to keep ice from forming.

Let us know when LRT and buses figure out to keep moisture of people breathing from fogging windows and making it generally unpleasant.



posted by: DavidGow (reply)
post date: 11.06.05 (3:03 pm)

You're just jealous that I can design an attractive web page.

By the way, just what are you trying to insinuate with your comments about "dubious" news sources?



posted by: DavidGow (reply)
post date: 11.06.05 (3:14 pm)

There's no argument about HVAC. There's only an accusation you have made. Therefore it's up to you to prove it--but so far you've just made stuff up.

http://www.kinetic.seattle.wa.us/nxtlevel/prt/seehowmakes.html



posted by: KENZ ARMY (reply)
post date: 11.07.05 (6:38 am)

Haw, haw, haw....

Now Mr. Avidor, why must you poke these poor POD FANATICS in the
fanny with a made up problem like
HVAC? They hop up and down
arguing that the fantasy pod
has everything. I hope my
FAITH BASED TRANSIT POD has
satalite tv and radio. And a shower,
and a mint on my POD-PILLOW.

But what happens when a drunk
throw up into the IMAGINARY HVAC. PEEEEE-UUUUU what an IMAGINARY
STINK....



posted by: PRT_Punk (reply)
post date: 11.07.05 (12:34 pm)

Reply to: KENZ

I thought commuters were "friends, family and fellow citizens". Not drunks vomiting in public places.

Apparently drunks will only vomit in PRT pods but somehow never do so in buses or LRT.



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.07.05 (4:34 pm)

Hey PUNK:

A drunk will never vomit in the
HVAC of a FAITH BASED TRANSIT POD because PRT does not exist!
And will not be built! And PRT is
laffed out of every RED BLOODED AMERICAN CITY.

The North - American POD WAR is
OVER. WE HAVE WON! SMOKING
SHELLS OF PODS in DENVER,
FRIDLEY, CALI, CINCINN, CHI-TOWN,
everywhere. Ding Dong the
witch is dead, which old witch? The
FLYING MONKEY POD WITCH, PUNK!

To paraphrase Conan:I CRUSH YOUR PODS, DRIVE THE POD PEOPLE
BEFORE ME, AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE
STOCKHOLDERS. You
Pod-fanatics cannot handle the truth.



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.08.05 (12:20 pm)

Conan? You mean Ah-nold? Figures you'd quote a Republican.



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.22.05 (7:12 pm)

Is this your argument from ignorance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_Ignorance

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