But the children had to prepare for school, the house had to be cleaned up, some social visits had to be undertaken and I had several other gammon and spinach, so there was no time left to sit back, to think a little about it and to enter some nice solutions. Although I had made a so called vague-ideas-list before summer.
The real reason was probably that I estimated my chances not very big. Usually the authorities want ideas that are in their yellow spot, which means no affect risk, introducable until the next election, understandable by everybody, acceptable by everybody and still improving their innovative image. Which may be understandable to some extend. But my ideas were a bit off the road I'm afraid.
You are invited to take a look at them and make up your mind for yourself. I like to hear your opinion!
1. Public transport's status above that of a private car. If we would make public transport more luxury, with more privacy, with more technical facilities, with shorter travel time from A to B and - most important - with more status than a private car the attraction of public transport should go up a bit above absolute zero. How? Well, I still had to think about it, but in the end mass production must always be more economic.
2. The google camera. Driving could be safer and roads could be used more efficiently by mounting a simple 360 degrees camera on the roof of private cars. A screen in the car connected to the camera would show a top view of the car and its surroundings (and will beep when a collision is coming).
3. Green city wave. On main roads in dutch cities usually there is someting like a green wave, which means that the traffic lights are always green if you drive exactly the permitted speed. But only on the main roads. I wanted to make green waves on every traffic light road. It may seem impossible on first sight but with for example the one-car-passing-a-crossing-at-a-time-concept there are interesting possibilities.
4. A heat pump for barges. This is more or less a conventional innovation, except that innovations are naturally not common in the shipping world. I might have added a cylinder sail, which is already done for sea shipping but not for barges on a regular base. Although this is not really innovative, it might have been exactly the yellow spot of the contest jury.
5. On the highway A15 to the port of Rotterdam there are always traffic jams. So why not get rid of a part of the traffic by transporting containers not by trucks but for example as submarines (see the "Every container a submarine"-blog).
6. A few months ago I designed an outdoor autowalk. One can often see the indoors at airports. The problem with them is that one small leave can make them stop. So I drew an outdoor one without moving parts; actually I was quite proud of it. Anyway, I thought to propose an implementation of it between the subway station and the Rotterdam airport. Yes, the subway passes the airport at about 2 kilometer!
7. The last one I wanted to submit eventually was an idea to reduce the CO2 emissions by 75%. I had already thought a bit about this idea so I may write another blog about it next time.
Of course I let you know when the winning idea is selected.
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