But this is why it is:
Diesel is super clean nowadays.
Especially the locomotives.
And majority of electricity comes from coal anyways.
oh
ah yes
makes sense
oh
biodiesel like the one brightline uses?
which ones?
some parts use solar and hydel power here
or its adani electricity
the siemens chargers are in the list for sure
but what about the older ones?
Older diesel are still cleaner than the (better) coal burning locomotives that we used to have everywhere.
Though water steam engines are the cleanest obviously (the current state of society wants faster and more powerful trains, like planes, so we don’t use them anymore)
hmm
Look regardless of the opinions of people on what is better for the environment: electric trains, planes, trucks, cars, etc, just aren’t there.
They are not reliable, not efficient, and not powerful enough at this day and age and state of development.
None of the “green” energy is there yet. It’s too expensive and doesn’t last long enough to payoff in the long run.
Now nuclear energy is clean, cheap, and reliable. But that doesn’t work or matter with trains.
"To date, the focus on electrification in the UK has been on marginally quicker journeys, but electric trains are also more reliable, quieter and cleaner. "
that never happened
According to google, the most powerful diesel locomotive puts out 6600hp
And the current most powerful locomotive in India is the Alstom Prima WAG-12, which puts out 12,000hp, and in the world, it is the Novocherkassk 4E5K which puts out around 18,000hp and both are electric.
Another point
Why do many rail operators trust electric traction with respect to high speed rail, commuter rail and metro rail?
And according to this statement, Mumbai should phase out their EMU’s and MEMU’s in favour of DMU’s.
even mainline services
The WAP-5’s produced directly in CLW cost INR 8,00,00,000/USD 1044536.80.
The cost for production of WAP-7 comes out to be INR 12,00,00,000/USD 1566805.20 raging from types of equipment, microprocessors used while building.
Those are electric ^
GE WDG-6’s cost around INR 13,00,000/ USD 1697372.30
Diesel ^
Thats not a very big difference
What?
I’ve said what I’m going to say.
I’m not going to argue with people on their views/opinions.
1990’s
vs
13 years ago
vs
Now
cool
