• Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Trains are easy and they’re easily electrified already. So putting solar on the trains won’t have any advantage.

    Rails are the difficult part of railways. They never seem to put them between my house and my work. They’ve put something called a road in between instead.

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      8 hours ago

      I presume they meant to put in railway infrastructure.

      Railways cost so much less than one highway, we could have a system basically from home to work.
      (eg smol trams to a midway se station to high-speed trains)

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          46 minutes ago

          I note with interest that you are repeatedly posting the same cherry-picked factoid.

          Average cost per mile for new track in the USA can be anywhere from $100mil/mile to over $1billion/mile for complicated projects like tunneling. This is roughly 50% higher than Europe - most likely for the simple fact that they have a larger industry for it. These are both quite high on an international scale- China builds new track for 24-48mil USD per mile.