The most efficient means of travel

Definetly the most efficient means of travel can be found here, Most efficient travel methods

 

No Gale17, this is the most efficeint means of travel:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=90818

 

whats funny is that both methods were suggested by penguins....

 

And the winner is?

So 'The most efficient' is not about the Caloric heat values derivable from batteries, or food, although I had heard that food was roughly 100 times better at it, then baterries, but when looking for efficiency what you want to know is how much of the 'work' is resulting in how much 'work', sounds funny right, (hey I'm A rabbit wadda ya want?) Oh no, it is actually how much of what is applied to the Machine in force that results in work done or achieved, how much of the energy output of a motor is actually driving the car, engine pushing the Jet, as it needs have all of the resistances subtracted from the two sides that get read, that is how you determine a Machines efficiency.

So it is a Bicycle, three sets of Bearings Minimum, four if you want to steer it, least resistence, so best energy transference = Most efficient.

If you want to know about energy read it. :tongue:

 

Is bicycle more efficient than hovercraft, or minimum-contact boat (e.g. a catamaran), or the Russian ekranoplan?

 

Yes to all, least amount of resistance to motion means it loses the least amount of the work put into it to make the output of work that makes it go, forwards.

Way more efficient then a Hovercraft.

 

Catapult must be the most efficient.

 

My vote goes to sleeping!

I can go anywhere in my dreams

 

look ma, my new, errrr? transport...errrerrrrr...

Good point, use it for transportation, Often, do you? :rofl: :tongue:

 

Beats riding my bike all day long.

 

In Herbert's Dune, spice-smoking mutants can send people and objects "traveling without moving" (by turning spacetime around, as it were). That's exactly why spice is so valuable.

That motto is somewhat similar to "mobilis in mobili" used to describe the submarine mode of travel in Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

 

Could not agree more. It also depends on the direction and the medium. Gravitation-propelled travel if the goal is to travel toward the Earth (aka jumping down). Solar sails in space travel.

 

Nuclear Segway.

 

The TransGlide 2000

This company is looking for investors.

http://www.biketrans.com/info.html

 

Near to far, away

I suppose, but it will not get you anywheres near as far, that, and landing must be kinda rough on your noggin, Oh yes! that explains it! :tongue2: :rofl:

The again after you get the short distance that the thing can throw you, you now need to move it, and that is NOT efficient.

 

Nothing gets past you does it lazy rabbit, am i glad that your back around to point me in the right direction.

 

Is that a Question? or an answer?

 

You tell me thumper.

I think a train would be the most efficient, due to the fact that it can transport many people over long distances quite cheaply.

 

Yea, the high speed trains in Europe and Japan are great.
So what is going to happen in 40 years when the oil is all gone? Electric airplanes?

 

I'm more inclined to believe hydrogen powered.

 

Oops I for got to put the little :tongue2: at the end.

I remember back in the sixties when the Airforce spent millions trying to build a nuclear powered bomber. It never got off of the ground. Neither did the Russians Nuke powered rocket. oops sorry off topic.