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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by rsynnott »

skrebbel wrote: post #213
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a perennial favorite of transportation NIMBYs. Where I live extending the light rail the last little bit over the river to Washington state is a no brainer, but it's been paralyzed by decades of opposition from suburbanites in Vancouver Wa. My friend's dad is/was one of the key activists. He'd stand in planning meetings and no joke scream about how "criminals" were gonna ride the train up, break into someone'…

I don’t completely follow, this is people living in a Portland suburb lobbying against getting a public transport connection? How is less infrastructure better?

In Dublin, there was some lobbying at the time against building a light rail line (the green Luas line) through some affluent areas on the basis that it would somehow reduce property values (a perennial Irish obsession). In fact, in practice, it increased property values (as you'd expect, really; the already existing heavy rail rapid transport had done the same), and 20 years later the same residents' groups and so on had a fit at the idea that service might be temporarily curtailed as part on an expansion plan...

(However, everything old is new again; there's widespread annoyance at plans to make the bus system actually work properly now...)

People are weird about this stuff.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by dghlsakjg »

yafbum wrote: post #274
beefield wrote: post #215

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As someone who carries a 20 cm metal rod through airport security every time and has not seen a single warning light ever popping up because of that, it is quite difficult for me to understand how the airport security is supposed to add safety against anyone who is willing to spend any time working around it - and who is motivated. (For the curious, there is a titanium plate in my body due to an accident)

I'm quite sure that if you carried the same in luggage or on your body (as opposed to _in_ your body), it would get confiscated.

Most roller bags have 20cm rods built into the handles.

The TSA explicitly allows hand tools up to 17cm (7 in.)

I think that at this point the TSA is more interested in explosives since hardened cockpit doors, and passenger willingness to intervene have pretty much killed takeover style hijackings.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by dghlsakjg »

cyberax wrote: post #164
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #126

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Crime does seem to center around heavily developed public transit corridors, but it is difficult to tell if economic or transit accessibility are the primary drivers of increased crime (probably a bit of both).

I'm not saying _anything_ about crime. I'm disputing the assertion that bike lanes inevitably increase property value.

Not bike lanes, bike paths

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by dghlsakjg »

noduerme wrote: post #128
KennyBlanken wrote: post #106

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Read on - what they were really afraid of was the dirty/smelly poors coming onto their precious island. You see the same BS with bike paths through residential neighborhoods. Despite studies showing that bike paths increase property values, residents bitch and moan about safety/crime. They basically figure that poor/non-white people will bike into their neighborhood and rape/pillage/burn everything. So you get a bunc…

Really? My street was recently turned into a greenway / bike street, and it's brought me nothing but an endless bike parade of smug white people in silly clothing. Just a couple hours ago, I was having to get my car towed and the tow driver was 3/4 into turning slowly back into the street when two women on bikes zoomed right in front of him, causing him to slam the brakes. One of them then shouted "Thank you!" over h…

> I can barely open my car door without some sanctimonious guy in spandex flying by and screaming at me.

You are supposed to yield to traffic when opening your car door into a lane. The "sanctimonious" cyclist is justifiably mad because you violated his right of way and placed him at risk of severe injury.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by maxcan »

tgtweak wrote: post #180
jameshart wrote: post #116

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> Seagliders have 5ft wave tolerance on takeoff and landing But do sea glider passengers have a 5ft wave tolerance? That sounds like a wild ride. But this is exciting... as someone who remembers taking the Hoverspeed SR.N4 from Dover to Calais, I know fast coastal transport innovation can be a game changer.

If you look at the distance between the hydrofoil and the hull midsection, it looks to be about 5ft or so. I would suspect that up to 5ft of wave has very little affect on the ride smoothness.

This is the answer.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by maxcan »

wolfram74 wrote: post #131
wthalheimer wrote: post #96

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The specific tolerance within that 8-13ft range is driven by wave period. Long period waves lets us operate more towards that 13ft end because you can contour the waves.

Do you have plans for a larger next gen model? It would have even more clearance if it had a corresponding increase in wingspan, right?

I believe that max demonstrated wave height will have more to do with the height of the hydrofoil than the wingspan / ground effect distance.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure the much larger Monarch (their further future 50-100pax model) will probably have longer vertical supports on the foils.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by edelans »

wthalheimer wrote: post #52

Hey guys - Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of REGENT here. A friend reached out to say this is blowing up - so cool! (Thank you beefman lol) Here to answer any questions

Very nice project, congrats! How does it perform on rough seas? How tolerant is it to the state of the surface? I expect you have big restrictions on the size of the swell.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by maxcan »

markdown wrote: post #152
chaboud wrote: post #94

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Thanks for inviting questions. This is a very fun idea that basically turns the Spruce Goose’s single flight in ground effect into a scaled reality. Amazing. With what is likely 1500+ pounds of battery, what is the operational charging/swapping strategy for carriers? Put another way, after one hour of operation (to exhaustion), how long is the vehicle expected to be idle?

> turns the Spruce Goose’s single flight in ground effect into a scaled reality. Amazing. I mean, it's been a reality for over a decade. This isn't new at all. https://www.wigetworks.com/

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by maxcan »

waiseristy wrote: post #145
wthalheimer wrote: post #52

Hey guys - Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of REGENT here. A friend reached out to say this is blowing up - so cool! (Thank you beefman lol) Here to answer any questions

What kind of sea states can you fly in? Any regions in particular that are more cost effective regarding weather?

I believe it has a max demonstrated wave height of 5'.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by beefield »

tchaffee wrote: post #243
beefield wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who carries a 20 cm metal rod through airport security every time and has not seen a single warning light ever popping up because of that, it is quite difficult for me to understand how the airport security is supposed to add safety against anyone who is willing to spend any time working around it - and who is motivated. (For the curious, there is a titanium plate in my body due to an accident)

Why would a plate in your body set off a warning light? It's not a security risk.

I don't think a typical metal detector can distinguish between metal in my arm and metal taped to my arm.
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