An all-weather guided vehicle system having a guideway including a single tube or a pair of parallel tubes capable of storing pressurized air. Vehicles are suspended below, above, or beside the tube(s) by way of carriages to which the vehicles are connected. Arcuate roller tracks between the vehicle
An all-weather guided vehicle system having a guideway including a single tube or a pair of parallel tubes capable of storing pressurized air. Vehicles are suspended below, above, or beside the tube(s) by way of carriages to which the vehicles are connected. Arcuate roller tracks between the vehicle and the carriage provide a banking mechanism for cornering. The tube(s) support continuous high-speed rails to receive suspension members extending from the carriage for air or wheeled suspension. Impulse vanes are provided on a vertical rod extending through a slotted opening in a propulsion channel for cooperation with air jet nozzles located within the channel to propel and brake the carriage. Embodiments having a fair-weather vehicle riding atop the deck and tire tracks for suspension and prevention of side sway are also disclosed.
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An all-weather guided vehicle system having a guideway including a single tube or a pair of parallel tubes capable of storing pressurized air. Vehicles are suspended below, above, or beside the tube(s) by way of carriages to which the vehicles are connected. Arcuate roller tracks between the vehicle
An all-weather guided vehicle system having a guideway including a single tube or a pair of parallel tubes capable of storing pressurized air. Vehicles are suspended below, above, or beside the tube(s) by way of carriages to which the vehicles are connected. Arcuate roller tracks between the vehicle and the carriage provide a banking mechanism for cornering. The tube(s) support continuous high-speed rails to receive suspension members extending from the carriage for air or wheeled suspension. Impulse vanes are provided on a vertical rod extending through a slotted opening in a propulsion channel for cooperation with air jet nozzles located within the channel to propel and brake the carriage. Embodiments having a fair-weather vehicle riding atop the deck and tire tracks for suspension and prevention of side sway are also disclosed. fails to detonate as intended, said method comprising the steps: (a) forming a quantity of an explosive material into an explosive device; (b) identifying microorganisms capable of bioremediating said explosive material; (c) positioning a quantity of said microorganisms in such proximity to said quantity of said explosive material that, when said quantity of microorganisms is mobilized, said quantity of said microorganisms is capable of bioremediating said quantity of said explosive material; and (d) placing said explosive device and said quantity of said microorganisms at a predetermined detonation site, whereby if said explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said quantity of said microorganisms deactivates said explosive device by bioremediating said explosive material in situ at said detonation site. 2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said microorganisms are selected from a group of microorganisms consisting of Pseudomonas spp., Escherichia spp., Morganella morganii, Rhodococcus spp., Comamonas spp., and denitrifying microorganisms. 3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said microorganisms are selected from a group of microorganisms in Pseudomonas spp. consisting of aeruginosa, fluorescens, acidovorans, mendocina, and cepacia. 4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said microorganisms are among a microorganism consortium identified at the American Type Culture Collection by ATCC Designation No. 55784. 5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said explosive material is selected from a group of explosive materials consisting of organic nitroaromatic explosives, organic nitramine explosives, and organic nitric ester explosives. 6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said explosive material is selected from a group of explosive materials consisting of trinitrotoluene, hexanitrostilbene, hexanitroazobenzene, diaminotrinitrobenzene and triaminotrinitrobenzene, cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine, nitroguanidine, 2,4,6-trinitrophenylmethylnitramine, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, nitroglycerine, and ethylene glycol dinitrate. 7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said microorganisms are sufficiently mobile to commence bioremediation of said explosive material after said step of positioning. 8. A method for remediating an explosive device, if the explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said method comprising the steps: (a) forming a quantity of an explosive material into an explosive device; (b) identifying microorganisms capable of bioremediating said explosive material; (c) processing a quantity of said microorganisms into a freeze dried quantity of said microorganisms; (d) positioning said freeze dried quantity of said microorganisms in such proximity to said quantity of said explosive material that, when said freeze dried quantity of said microorganisms is mobilized, said freeze dried quantity of said microorganisms is capable of bioremediating said quantity of said explosive material; and, (e) placing said explosive device at a predetermined detonation site, whereby if said explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said freeze dried quantity of said microorganisms deactivates said explosive device by bioremediating said explosive material. 9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of positioning comprises coupling a bioremediation apparatus containing said microorganisms with said explosive device. 10. A method for remediating an explosive device, if the explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said method comprising the steps: (a) forming a quantity of an explosive material into an explosive device; (b) identifying microorganisms capable of bioremediating said explosive material; (c) providing a bioremediation apparatus comprising: (i) reservoir means for releasably containing a liquid capable of mobilizing said microorganisms; (ii) storage means for releasably containing a quantity of said microorganism s, said storage means being in selective communication with said reservoir means; (iii) first valve means for releasing said liquid from said reservoir means into said storage means in the open condition of said first valve means; and (iv) second valve means for releasing said microorganisms and said liquid into contact with said quantity of said explosive material in said explosive device in the open condition of said second valve means; (d) coupling said bioremediation apparatus with said explosive device, thereby positioning said quantity of said microorganisms in such proximity to said quantity of said explosive material that, when said quantity of said microorganisms is mobilized, said quantity of said microorganisms is capable of bioremediating said quantity of said explosive material; and (e) placing said explosive device at a predetermined detonation site, whereby if said explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said quantity of said microorganisms deactivates said explosive device by bioremediating said explosive material. 11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein said explosive apparatus comprises: (a) a shell containing said quantity of said explosive material, said shell having an open end; (b) a capwell in said open end of said shell; (c) a bioremediation portal formed through said capwell communicating with the explosive material in said shell; and (d) actuation means at said capwell for opening said first valve means and said second valve means in said step of coupling, thereby releasing said microorganisms and said liquid from said storage means and said reservoir means, respectively, to flow through said bioremediation portal into contact with said explosive material in said explosive device. 12. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of positioning comprises the step of applying a liquid containing said microorganisms to said explosive device. 13. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of positioning comprises the step of intermixing said quantity of said explosive material and said quantity of said microorganisms, thereby producing an explosive mixture with bioremediating capacity prior to said step of forming. 14. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of providing mobilization means for mobilizing said microorganisms to contact said quantity of said explosive material. 15. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of positioning occurs before said step of placing. 16. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein said step of positioning occurs after said step of placing, and said step of positioning comprises the step of pouring a liquid containing said microorganisms onto said explosive device at the predetermined detonation site. 17. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of shaping a quantity of said microorganisms into aggregations of said microorganisms, said aggregations having a form selected from the group consisting of a pellet, a capsule, a shard, a flake, a granule, a powder, and a clump. 18. A method as recited in claim 17, wherein said step of forming occurs before said step of positioning. 19. A method as recited in claim 18, wherein said step of positioning comprises the step of depositing said aggregations of said microorganisms on an exposed surface of said explosive material in said explosive device. 20. A method for remediating an explosive device, if the explosive device fails to detonate as intended, said method comprising the steps: (a) forming a quantity of an explosive material into an explosive device by disposing said quantity of said explosive material in a shell, said shell enabling water from the exterior of said shell to flow through said shell into contact with said quantity of said explosive material; (b) identifying microorganisms capable of bioremediating said explosive material; (c) shaping a quantity of said microorganisms into aggregations of said microorganisms, said aggreg
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