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You should get the train crews insight on this. They are the ones that know how it actually is effecting every situation. I can tell you first hand that its not good for anyone except the carriers and share holders that are cashing in on this operating practice.
No at some point you have to just live life you cant control everything. Raise awareness about how dangerous is, is what I think should be done but we dont need more tech controlling us or our cars.
I find this scene funny for two reasons: first, because even though they know that the wind is not enough to keep the bounce house inflated, they continue to bounce around as if nothing is wrong; and second, because I can relate, since in my house we spend a lot of energy on the bounce house on a daily basis.
But you don't have high gas prices in the US !!!!! Right now, prices are "low" in the UK at about $1.50 / litre . Multiply by 3.8 for a US gallon which is nearly $6 / US gallon. And that's low here in the UK its been much higher for a LOOOONG time. Infact if you increased gas taxes in the U.S. you'd beable to provide national govt health care and reduce the need for insurance and all the ridiculous practices that you have over there. It'd be something like 13 billion dollars / year with a 10 cent tax.
So Nuclear has no negatives then? No difficulty meeting peak demand? No limitations with hot weather? No shut down because of minor problems? No buffer space needed because people don't want to live next door? You don't remember 3 mile island? Limited fuel supply? High costs and difficult planning approval?
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suzanne looks like a soulless psychiatric patient, i cant trust information presented by a person who doesnt get any sunlight on the topic of solar energy
This is just a paid political announcement by the AAR. Aii=AAR. Brought to you by the people who want one-person crews, 4+ mile long trains, and so on.
There is a lot of buzz words, but it would help to define how long is a “long train”, where “the data” came from, what areas you’re looking at (e.g. western lines with long straight stretches or east coast’s more variable turns), freight types, and how this analysis is being funded.
Longer trains. Did you evaluate the addition of more locomotives in the middle and ends of the longer trains. How is that more cost effective and environmentaly more efficient. Seems to me the only savings are Carriers reducing train crews. A stopped two or three mile train can cut more than one community in half. I've seen it more than once on the UP.
Global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. The back of the United Nation's IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution. Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth’s greenhouse effect is from water vapor. Water vapor would hold earth's greenhouse effect in saturation if it were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. That warmer water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice coverage resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface. Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet. 0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2. The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.
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I kind of wish you had defined Long. Here in Australia, most freight trains are about 1.1 miles (1.8 kilometers) in length, but I don't know what the average is in the US. Thanks for an interesting report on the subject. 😁
Great question and thanks for the productive comment! One problem is a lack of common definition for what counts as long. Our report points to differences in calculating train length, with some using car count and some using linear length. Even then, there is considerable overlap between how some define typical, long, and very long trains.
@@AiiNonProfitit wouldn’t be hard since you have gathered data on train length. You determine the average train length and then it’s just a bell curve. Again, since you have already gathered the data, this process shouldn’t be very difficult.
The great news is that in almost every state, it only takes two to three days to get locators to mark your dig site! The longest wait time is Alaska, which requires marking within 15 working days (or 20 working days for remote unstaffed areas)
So if 0 is no infrastructure… how is America a 3?😂 i mean i think 5-6 is more accurate if were actually comparing to other countries. I mean there countries with dirt roads and 100+ year old train cars carrying thousands of people. Or ya know places with no power and dirt houses
Theyll be viable eventually, but we definitely dont have the weight to energy ratio for it to be prqctical yet. There are electric airplanes, theyre just small and have limited range.
