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• Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  or electric trains :(

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Almost all modern trains are electric…

    …they just have a big diesel generator in the back powering it :P

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think that’s probably a little more difficult for interstate runs

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    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      why? they are more fuel efficient than fleets of trucks, cheaper to build, run and maintain than roads, better for the environment by not soewing microplastics into the environment, and to top it off, move more stuff for less labor.

      look at china for examples of long distance train networks designed and deployed rapidly.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Australia is as wide as, and is taller than USA. It’s a large country

        We have one main train line across the country horizontally, and two vertically. The vast majority is uninhabited.

        We’re talking about an infrastructure project that has to supply reliable high voltage power across the entire country (4000 km), build multiple new train lines across the entire country, and even then you still need trucks for distribution within states as rail is not capable of last mile delivery

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      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Truth. And even cooler, there have been some conversion projects to make semi-trucks run like electric trains.

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• vividspecter@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trials are starting to happen, such as this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqWG2kgOKE

  Like most countries, Australia is well behind China on this which already has a thriving electric truck industry.

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