World

Building

WHAT

World building is the process of creating an imaginary world, complete with its own geography, history, cultures, ecosystems, and technologies. This comprehensive practice allows creators to develop immersive environments by detailing various elements such as the physical landscape, societal structures, technological advancements, and the intricate interactions between these components. In the context of future transportation, world building helps envision how transit systems and infrastructure could evolve, integrating seamlessly with the imagined society and environment.

WHY

By imagining new worlds, creators can explore innovative solutions and push the boundaries of current reality. This process helps in understanding how different elements interact and influence each other, leading to more comprehensive and effective designs. Additionally, well-built worlds add depth and richness to stories, games, and projects, making them more engaging and immersive for the audience. In terms of future transportation, it allows for the exploration of how transit systems can be designed to meet the evolving needs of society, ensuring sustainability and efficiency.

HOW

Building a world involves several key steps. Start by gathering inspiration from books, movies, and real-world innovations, identifying elements that inspire you and considering how they can be adapted or combined in your world. Define the core elements such as geography, climate, culture, society, technology, and transportation, and consider how they interact and support each other. Visualize your world through collages or sketches to make your ideas tangible and cohesive. Finally, create daily life scenarios to describe how people interact with their environment, technology, and each other, focusing on transportation and infrastructure.

• Geography: Arrakis is a desert planet characterized by vast expanses of sand dunes, minimal vegetation, and scarce water sources. The harsh climate features extreme temperatures and frequent sandstorms.
• Technology: The inhabitants of Arrakis have developed specialized technology to survive the harsh environment. This includes stillsuits that reclaim body moisture and ornithopters, which are agile, insect-like flying machines used for transportation and spice harvesting.
• Transportation: Ornithopters serve as the primary means of transportation, capable of navigating the treacherous desert terrain and evading giant sandworms. Spice harvesters are massive machines used to extract the valuable spice melange from the sands.
• Culture: The Fremen, indigenous to Arrakis, have a deep understanding of the desert and its challenges. Their society is built around survival, with a strong emphasis on water conservation and community. The planet’s economy and politics are heavily influenced by the spice trade, making it a focal point for interstellar conflict and intrigue.

Arrakis from Dune

• Geography: Arrakis is a desert planet characterized by vast expanses of sand dunes, minimal vegetation, and scarce water sources. The climate is harsh, with extreme temperatures and frequent sandstorms.
• Technology: To survive the harsh environment, inhabitants use specialized technology like stillsuits that reclaim body moisture and ornithopters, agile flying machines used for transportation and spice harvesting.
• Transportation: Ornithopters are the primary means of transport, capable of navigating the desert terrain and evading giant sandworms. Spice harvesters are massive machines used to extract the valuable spice melange from the sands.
• Culture: The Fremen, indigenous to Arrakis, have a deep understanding of the desert and its challenges. Their society emphasizes survival, water conservation, and community. The planet’s economy and politics are heavily influenced by the spice trade, making it a focal point for interstellar conflict.

Coruscant from Star Wars

• Geography: Wakanda is a hidden advanced city in Africa, surrounded by lush landscapes and mountainous regions, protected by a natural barrier and advanced technology.
• Technology: Wakanda's technology is powered by Vibranium, a rare and powerful element. The nation boasts advanced medical technologies, energy shields, and highly sophisticated weaponry.
• Transportation: High-speed maglev trains, personal hovercrafts, and advanced public transit systems are powered by Vibranium, ensuring efficient and eco-friendly transportation.
• Culture: Wakanda combines traditional African elements with futuristic advancements, featuring ceremonies, rituals, and a strong sense of community. The society values both technological progress and cultural heritage, maintaining a balance between the two.

Wakanda from Black Panther

• Geography: Earth faces constant threats from giant monsters known as Kaiju, emerging from a breach in the Pacific Ocean. Coastal cities are fortified with immense walls, and inland areas are developed with advanced defense systems.
• Technology: Humanity has developed colossal robots called Jaegers, piloted by two individuals linked via a neural bridge. These advanced machines are equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry and armor to combat the Kaiju.
• Transportation: Jaegers are deployed via specialized shuttles and drop ships, capable of rapid deployment to Kaiju attack sites. The infrastructure also includes extensive underground bunkers and transport systems for civilian evacuation during attacks.
• Culture: The constant Kaiju threat has unified humanity, fostering international cooperation and a military-industrial complex dedicated to defense. Society is heavily militarized, with a strong emphasis on the valor and sacrifice of Jaeger pilots. The economy revolves around Jaeger production, maintenance, and city rebuilding after attacks.

Pacific Rim

• Geography: Futuristic city in the sky with towering buildings and elevated homes.
• Technology: Automated homes, robotic assistants, and a wide array of futuristic gadgets.
• Transportation: Flying cars that navigate skyways and moving walkways within buildings.
• Culture: Society focused on convenience and efficiency, embracing technological advancements to improve quality of life.

The Jetsons

Biomass is one of the most versatile energy sources as it can be used for heat, electricity, transportation fuel, and can be used as liquid fuel. And it can be produced almost anywhere in America. Biomass is made of Living organisms and we have 4930 trillion British thermal units of it. And just last year, biomass was 5% of all energy consumption in the USA, biomass is the best renewable energy source to save our future.

What its about

Biomass being a renewable source, of course it can’t run out. Biomass is made by burning natural resources, like wood, crops, and waste. Using biomass, we can still burn things to make energy, and have unlimited amounts of it. Yes, carbon dioxide is created by burning biomass, but instead, other forms of biomass (specifically plants) can absorb the CO2, which helps them with photosynthesis. If there was a source that can be like fossil fuels, but cleaner, and be unlimited, it’s BIOMASS.

Why biomass is the best

Biomass, a renewable clean energy source, can be made into cleaner burning transportation fuels like ethanol and biodiesel which are better for the environment than gas and traditional diesel. Ethanol, when mixed with gasoline produces E10 which is a cleaner-burning fuel that is used nationwide. Biodiesel is renewable, non toxic, biodegradable and can be blended with petroleum to fuel compression ignition engines.

Biomass being a renewable source is also a WTE(waste to energy) process. Since biomass uses a WTE process that means that it's able to take your trash and use it for renewable energy. Biomass being a WTE process means that it can generate renewable energy and reduce waste that ends up in landfills at the same time.

Conclusion

Biomass is a versatile renewable energy source that can be used for heat, electricity, transportation fuel, and liquid fuel. Biomass can be made into E10 and biodiesel which are transportation fuels that are cleaner burning than traditional gas and diesel. Also, as biomass decays, it is able to produce more energy. Biomass is also very cheap and costs way less compared to lots of other renewable energy sources.

Location

• flat ground
• avoid mountains and buildings
• close to population centre, but far enough from urban
• drained area
• wind consideration (head wind/ tail wind)
• appear near the sea (Boston Logan airport)

in contrast El Alto international airport

Pros and Cons

Plane Travel

Pros:

• Fastest way to travel
• No traffic
• Can go over water or steep mountains
• Can take hundreds of people at once
• Plane crashes are very rare

Cons:

• pricy
• Hard to fly (and takes a lot more than other transport methods to get a license)
• If the plane does crash, there is a high chance everyone in the plane will die, due to it being so high in the air, and mostly above the ocean.
• Lots of CO2 put in the atmosphere

Average Domestic Airline Itinerary Fares By Origin City

https://www.transtats.bts.gov/averagefare/

Future potential

• Reduce C02 emissions
• hydrogen power as energy storage
• ultralight material
• artificial intelligent as assistant
• electric aircraft