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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Electrified rail is great if it’s available but it’s more than often not.

    Trucking is THE way things get from point A to point B in the US and it’s not going away anytime soon.

    I am aware of the current situation, the “is”, I was instead talking about the “ought”.

    We currently depend on trucking and diesel trains, but we ought to switch to electrified rail and truck.

    The kind of infrastructure required for the solution in your video is cool

    It’s cool, and a huge change. A necessary change though.

    probably needs to be paired with some hybrid technology so trucks can still thrive in flyover country where building and maintaining electric highway infrastructure isn’t pragmatic.

    For rural areas, trains are the way to go. They are faster, lower carbon emission, and all round lower energy requirements per unit of freight.

    The only real problem with them is hills, which isn’t exactly a problem for the majority of the U.S.