Parrahub and Sydney to Melbourne Maglev via Canberra

[eddy]

@ hugh45
Thanks for pointing out my original post on the 30 floor Parrahub carpark ramp was too far so I redrew it on Sketchup with a steeper ramp that is only one and a half turns around the 1 kilometer perimeter taking about five minutes to the bottom so I suppose it depends on how desperate you are to find a free long stay 4 m wide parking space in the 30,000 underground carpark.

[eddy]

Video on how easy it is to deliver containers from the freight siding to the customer fast and cheap with skeletals, B doubles, A doubles and side loader semitrailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPpAougwrqw&t=2s

[eddy]

France has just past a law that forces people on to trains instead of plane but they are too slow, infrequent and expensive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdvZCT8sIg

After much thought and watching Brendan Hasty I decided the best way to lift the 5,000 prebuilt units into place is with two very large crawler cranes with one on each side.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/ ... -unit-2012

[eddy]

The Parrahub 30,000 four metre wide carpark is here.
https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

[eddy]

The maximum number of cars in a single lane is 1,900 cars per hour so four roads are 7,600 cars per hour and I believe that is quite sufficient because sometimes if you know there is a problem at a certain time you go a bit before or after and as I said before half the cars would belong to residents.

https://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-e ... ould-know/

[eddy]

The economies of scale will allow Parrahub to be the best value in greater Sydney at $2,000,000 each unit especially the free 30,000 space four metre wide carpark.

https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

[eddy]

I got an email off Brendan Hasty today wanting to get a link to Parrahub so I emailed back that he could see the carpark here.

[eddy]

Investors need state and federal governments to have skin in the game but as all governments need to know what the public feel I suggest we have a referendum like the Swiss did in 1992 with the Gotthard Base Tunnel.

Oil will sooner or later reach $200 per barrel and our children and grandchildren will then benefit from what we decide now.

[Frances]

What? Another referendum?

[eddy]

What? Another referendum?

The last one shows how the federal government misjudged the people and with investors wanting certainty, ultimately it is up to a percentage of the population of Australia who want a $60b-$100b profitable connection between Sydney/Canberra/Albury/Melbourne done in three years while balancing our trade with China and helping East Timor.

PS
It would also showcase the Japanese SC maglev and increase our knowledge of TBM

[eddy]

Competition is the new buzz word and even in the South Bulli coal mine we used to compete between the two long walls so perhaps we may not only have competition between the 30 separate companies at the launch sites but if FIFO aborigines want to compete with the FIFO East Timor teams it would be a great opportunity for them all to lean new skills.

[eddy]

The Parrahub 5,000 unit four bedroom building https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

To sit above the 30,000 underground carpark https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

Because of our housing shortage perhaps some can be sold off the plan to overseas people who come here after it is built or even if some of the $5b American investment is put on a couple of floors in the carpark.

It will be a shame if in 100 years Sydney looks back and wishes we had not allowed the window of opportunity to pass.

[eddy]

After watching how China can make fifty excavators a day just in one factory surely it would not take them long to build sixty double shield hardrock TBM to connect Sydney to Melbourne rather than building ships to stop a possible blockade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGCKZPRQTdQ

[eddy]

I asked ChatGPT
“Could snowy 2 supply power to run an underground Japanese SC maglev from Melbourne to Sydney via substations every 10 kilometers via a cable in the tunnel “
And it concluded
“While theoretically possible, the practicality and feasibility of such a project would depend on detailed studies, thorough planning, significant investment, and the willingness of governments, private companies, and communities to collaborate on this endeavor. Additionally, the specific technical details and advancements in maglev technology would play a crucial role in making such a project a reality.”

[eddy]

Sent an email to Toll today asking where they think the overnight container train freight siding should go in Sydney to deliver the containers directly to the customer with an electric prime mover.

https://www.tollgroup.com/about/news-an ... fulfilment

[Frances]

the willingness of governments

[eddy]

the willingness of governments

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Lucy may have been for growing Sydney but Malcolm was for Australia.

https://app.sketchup.com/share/tc/north ... source=web

[eddy]

In 1956 the first container ship took the price of freight from $5.83/t breakbulk to $0.16/t so containers are all the go if you can stop the hackers.

[eddy]

Having seen a couple of truck and bus drivers wandering and admittedly one night I missed the rest stop the less people driving overnight the less accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_tZ96r5hU

[eddy]

Although there are many who need a window in their bedroom, shift workers would prefer a cool,quiet dark bedroom where even the smallest amount of light does not keep them from sleeping.

[Frances]

Surely every room would need windows

[eddy]

Surely every room would need windows

There are 20% of Sydney work shifts and anyone who has to sleep through the day needs quiet,cool and very dark bedrooms.

Don't forget the whole building is virus free negativly ventilated.

[eddy]

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.
China would be happy to balance our trade with 60 double shield hardrock TBM.
Japan would be happy to showcase the proven profitable SC maglev.
Australia would be happy to kill planes and trucks between Sydney and Melbourne in three years.
Malcolm Turnbull would be happy to power the SC maglev from snowy 2.
Germany would be happy to sell a number of shaft sinking machines from Herrenknecht AG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCDsFIqIfA0&t=373s
Tasmania would be happy to sell the HVDC cables to be fed through the shaft directly below Snowy2
People travelling between Parramatta, Canberra, Albury and Melbourne would love to do it cheap and fast.

[PG1]

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?

[eddy]

PG1
I admit I got the fortnight mixed up with the week, FIFO workers in Australia get $100,000 p/a and the average wage in East Timor is only US $7,200 p/a so they would be happy with above that particularly as they have such high unemployment.

All the bells and whistles like they have at Snowy 2 and our labour laws would make impossible for it to work as there are many times when the TBM is stopped so in my opinion it is better for the workers to just be allowed to go home before the two weeks if they drive 200 metres which they may do in one week.

You are correct that maybe our Australian law may kill it but surely there is an exception for very well paid workers to have job and knock.

Regarding Snowy 2 to avoid hostilities from farmers and greenies it seems so simple to have a launch shaft to feed the HVDC cables made in Tasmania to power the Japanese SC maglev.