wrote-Mike Jensvold Ward 10
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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