[Mpls] Fwd: Dean Zimmermann in the news - PRT

[Steve Nelson]

> -Mike Jensvold
> Ward 10
wrote
> Fortunately, personal rapid transit is already
> available today, in Minneapolis.  It's called a taxi
> cab.

Hardly appropriate.  It is like comparing apples and oranges.  Taxicabs 
share the roadway with other cars, trucks, buses and LRT.  They also run on 
internal combustion engines and contribute to our greenhouse gas problem in 
a large way.

PRT is electric and it is true that current electrical plant technology 
relies heavily on coal and gas burning turbines, we are working on alternate 
forms of energy such as wind and solar so down the road PRT could be 
pollution-free.  Until then it's pollution is shared by every lightbulb, 
computer and other electric appliance we use.  It is not a separate source 
from them.

Steven M Nelson
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