Free Lunch wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:04:17 -0800, in misc.transport.urban-transit
> "Jack May" wrote in
> :
>> "Bill Z." wrote in message
>> news:878xf0f2lo.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net...
>>> "Jack May" writes:
>>>
>>>> "Bill Z." wrote in message
>>>> news:87wt2n9en9.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net...
>>>>> sechumlib writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean New York does not get electric power generated at Niagra
>>>>> Falls and can't figure out how to run long-distance electric trains
>>>>> like they do in Europe?
>>>> Power on the east coast uses coal for a lot of its fuel. They just
>>>> realized
>>>> that 20% of California electricity is generated by coal. Electric
>>>> propulsion creates very dirty energy.
>>> and
>>> ,
>>> plus slow incremental improvements to date:
>>> .
>>>
>>>> One grid covers the western states. The electricity a train uses could be
>>>> from any power generator, coal or hydro.
>>> So?
>> Because some people are claiming the electricity for trains comes only from
>> pollution free hydro which is rather unrealistic.
>
> In place hydro is fine, but the chance that more hydro will be built is
> extremely small in developed countries.
Harnessing wind seems like a fairly realistic approach for transit,
assuming there is a good source nearby. |
