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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  14th of September 2012

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

100 years later—

Build a Trans-Australian Vacuum Maglev!

It is now high time for Australia to build an ultra-high-speed Trans-Australian Vacuum Maglev transport tube to revolutionise transport for the future. A vacuum maglev transport tube would allow speeds exceeding 6,000 km/h, given that there is zero air and rolling resistance to transport speeding through a magnetic field in a vacuum. It would therefore take only one hour to reach Perth from Melbourne or Sydney! The Chinese have already tested this technology and there’s every reason for Australia to get started right now.

Let us have the same bold outlook as did our forefathers a century ago.

One hundred years ago today, on 14 September 1912, Governor-General Thomas Denman turned the first sod of the Trans-Australian Railway at Port Augusta, after the passage of legislation introduced the previous year by the legendary Home Affairs Minister and Commonwealth Bank founder, King O’Malley.

Back in 1912 the nation’s population was only 4.7 million, and our technology was fairly limited, but we pushed ahead with this bold scheme which helped transform our nation, uniting it from east to west.

Workers built the railway concurrently from Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie and the two halves of the line met on 17 October 1917. The 1,063 miles (1,711 km) of railway was built with the help of track-laying equipment O’Malley imported from Chicago, in addition to the use of camels and horses.

The existing Trans-Australian Railway includes the world’s longest stretch of dead-straight railway track, a 478-kilometre track over the almost perfectly flat Nullarbor Plain. Such a flat surface will require minimal earthmoving works for the new vacuum tube which must be dead straight to allow transportation at maximum speeds exceeding 6,000 km/h.

A single tube can have the capacity equivalent to 20 lanes of freeway traffic, so a two-way double tube system will allow cross-continental traffic to expand by orders of magnitude. And since the transport has effectively zero air and rolling resistance, minimal energy is required and running costs will accordingly be reduced.

The Trans-Australian Vacuum Maglev can be built concurrently with several other vacuum tubes linking our major cities and eventually we will have a network of tubes linking every home and business as our roads do today.

This transport revolution should be funded by credit from a new national bank. In any case, given that this infrastructure will reap untold trillions of dollars in savings and technological spin-offs, we should not allow the typical short-sighted budget cost accounting to stand in its way.

The vacuum tubes should be sized to accommodate regular freight, as well as passenger traffic. Australia can collaborate with China and other nations developing vacuum maglev to develop a new standard size for freight containers and tube diameters, thus allowing efficient global trade. The numerous benefits of this vacuum maglev transport revolution were further elaborated in a CEC media release of 30 August 2011.

Join and support the CEC today to make this a reality.

Click here for a CEC video discussing vacuum maglev.

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