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hunter

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2. Electric trains are a well established technology.

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Fri Jan 6, 2017, 11:20 PM

Jan 2017

Unlike airplanes, they don't require carbon fuels.

There's no good reason to use fossil fueled airplanes for trips of less than a few hundred miles between densely populated areas.

I don't understand the opposition to high speed rail.

It's as if fossil fueled vehicles are an essential aspect of some increasingly bizarre religion.

Oil is our god.

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Netherlands trains now running on 100 percent wind power [View all] OKIsItJustMe Jan 2017 OP

First thing that came to mind was trains with sails... The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #1

Electric trains are a well established technology. hunter Jan 2017 #2

"I don't understand the opposition to high speed rail." OKIsItJustMe Jan 2017 #4

Really? The wind blows continuously in the Netherlands? Why don't they put sails on their trains? NNadir Jan 2017 #3