Its not that expensive in especially comparison to the entire hustle with Hydrogen…
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoIt’s worth the time and effort in a city, and even between two large cities that are relatively close to each other. Sadly, building and maintaining the system isn’t cheap, so we don’t do it in more remote locations.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Hydrogen technology is still in its infancy, so economies of scale aren’t helping very muc at this point. On top of that, the storage options are far from ideal, and not all hydrogen is green. Currently there are many obstacels, but hopefully hydrogen will find its place in the future.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A very idiotic statement.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Caucasus was electrifued first in Soviet Union
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Distance doesn’t matter as long as the line connects two places that are important in the big picture.
Rowsdower@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It’s true. Electrified rail lines do exist in a many places, but not quite everywhere. Since there are also non-electric lines, there’s also a time and a place for non-electric locomotives.
Rowsdower@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A line crossing the Rockys can hardly be considered remote, (at least in an integrated system) it should get tons and tons of through-traffic. It’s not about where the line is but what it connects.
A line can be way less remote, say just ten kilometres from a million inhabitant metropolis, but still see very limited traffic as the area is rural, and only have hourly passenger service and nothing else, maybe a couple of grain wagons in harvesting season and electrifying it would not amortise in a century or ever (because increased maintenance costs). Completely different situation to having through-traffic 24/7 bumper to bumper somewhere at the arse of the world.