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Not so in cases like Woolwich Ferry, which now have cost tax payers £10.70 million for an 18-month operating contract and takes over 6.00minutes per crossing, excluding embarking and disembarking. That wouldn't be so with Nerissa Gliders as a vehicle ferry. Practically, it should do a crossing for a minute more or less including embarking and disembarking. In addition to that it recovers potential energy of the vehicles carried across.
Woolwich Ferry boats have two 500.00 hp diesel engines and a tonnage of 738.00 tones with a capacity of 500.00 passengers and 200.00 tone vehicles. This makes a gross weight of almost 1000.00 tons per boat. For the same capacity, Narissa Gliders can have a gross weight of under 400.00 tones. Additionally, it should be possible to recover potential energy of at least half of its cargoes per crossing. This recovered potential energy should be at least 20.00MJ per crossing, which can be converted to electricity and fed into National Grid to generate a handsome earning for the tax payers. Nerissa Gliders, as Woolwich Ferry, should reduce waiting time and traffic congestion to a negligible point. This encourages more traffic to come to use it, which means more earning for tax payers. Simply this means Nerissa Gliders, as Woolwich Ferry, shouldn't cost tax payers any thing and possibly it will earn some thing for them, tax payers.
For longer trips, the issues you have raised are almost negligible. The system is not driven by ropes, it is driven by gravity or driving wheels on the pillars. Obviously it can be made to travel a lot faster than bullet or magnet trains because it can do without air. Fast trains need air to press them down against rails to get good traction. Aeroplanes need air to fly, swim, through. So you have to design trains and aeroplanes to use air but these designs create more air resistance. With Nerissa Gliders, you don't need these designs. Because it is a hanging glider travels on supports. You can design it like a cylinder in the middle with long cones at the front and back. In this way, you almost overcome 99% air resistance and drag. Driving wheels of Nerissa Gliders can be made as two, one on the top of the other, to sandwich the feet between them to give it a maximum traction.
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look, they will check the figures and you will come out of it looking like someone trying to sell an elevator to the moon. 
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