Given the catastrophes that will occur should we be unable to find a sustainable replacement for our fossil fuelled world, I would therefore like to find answers to the following questions in regard to the linear city concept:

1. Whether the elimination of all or most personal, non-commercial and motorised wheeled vehicles, as well as all aircraft, is possible with the construction of linear cities. These vehicles consumed approximately 40% of the energy used in both the United Kingdom and the United States in 2004 and we have to wonder what we will be able to do when there is no further economically extractable petroleum. In addition, the continuing problem of massively heavy vehicles transporting single persons surely represents one of the largest sources of energy wasted worldwide. Can we demonstrate that there are better ways to solve transportation problems by leading with brilliant new technologies?

2. The daily commute by billions of people worldwide is simply another aspect of the enormous problem of the wasted energy used in transportation. Those earning good salaries prefer to live with their families in the countryside with access to nature, clean air and water, less noise and pollution. By bringing a minimally invasive form of the city to the countryside, can we satisfy this need for everyone? And, can we eliminate the twice daily commute of on average 30 - 60 miles that is enormously wasteful both in energy, and in its contribution to global warming and to pollution?

3. The development of the automobile has brought with it many new possibilities, as well as many of our most pressing problems. What will it take to get everyone on board for ideas on a scale that are big enough to save humanity from the energy poverty abyss, literally in its historically and absolutely most pressing hour of need, with ideas and projects that are similar to this?

4. By giving access to the recreational opportunities offered by open spaces and nature, all visible outside everyone's window, as well as to individual and agricultural-scale food production areas in the immediate proximity, can we make food production less harmful to the environment, better in quality, and far less wasteful in terms of the energy used in the production and the transport of goods to markets and the consumer?

5. There is another enormously wasteful loss of energy resources that is the loss in transmission of minimally 7-8% of the energy generated between its point of generation and its point of use. Can we vastly reduce this loss by putting the points of generation, that is wind turbines on the roof of the linear city, closer to the points of use only approximately 20 - 70 metres away that they supply? Wind power is certainly intermittent, but the linear city could also more easily contain a cryogenic "high temperature" superconducting supply network than the current system of overhead high tension lines, to more evenly spread the supply of and the demand for electricity from one end of the country, or the planet, to the other.

6. The chart on the right illustrates the sources
for electricity generation in the UK. Again, 
from what sources we will be able to generate when the 71% of non-renewable, non-nuclear sources are
gone. At that point it will be far too late to begin
building a sustainable infrastructure. We must
consider all of the feasible alternatives now, so that mankind can avoid the same kind of mass die-off that has befallen other ecosystems in the past. We must create some kind of replacement infrastructure NOW, while there is still time and relatively cheap energy to design and construct it.

7. Many of the people that I have spoken with have been critical of the large scale of the linear city idea, of the idea that they can no longer possess a car, having been unaware of the need for any change. So, one of the biggest challenges in reaching a sustainable world while there is still time is in the education of people so that they take on board the ideas, and begin to contribute ideas themselves for an entirely 100% sustainable world. Part of the goal of this website, therefore, is to provoke people around the world into generating both new, similar and dissimilar ideas to resolve these problems before they submerge us all, not just those in the less fortunate parts of the planet!

8. There are over 6 billion of us alive at the moment. What will we do when energy levels return to close to those that only supported 1.6 billion in 1900 (the beginning of the petroleum era)? 

9. It has taken us only 100 generations to come from the year 0 to the present year, at 20 years/generation, or only 20 times the number of generations (5) that we know in our own families. What are we leaving for the descendants of our genes, 2000 years hence - war, energy poverty, food poverty, disease, or worse?

10. Can the form of minimally ducted wind turbine that I am proposing, along with high-performance photovoltaic and solar thermal panels supply enough energy for those living in such a city? The city itself will offer many opportunities for energy savings in the integrated structure with fewer external walls and roof per person, highly efficient transportation, "home-grown" food production, and massive energy production from renewable sources. What other alternatives are available? Can manufacturers be encouraged to develop new technologies that will benefit us all, and even save the world from the abyss of energy poverty, while creating billions of new jobs?