The South Africans do
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More on electric cars.
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If one painted out the route - with nice easy rail like curves and corners etc, how many people would you carry in similar length (or half length and double decker) electric road train?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Well yes- SASOL was making a lot of liquid fuel from coal when S Africa was under embargo.
But its not the most efficient process is the world.
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Not directly, no, and not any more IIRC.
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Trams are much more energy efficient. Less rolling friction.
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No you couldn't.
You don't use your brain any day.
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But more weight and infrastructure maintenance. Which respectively require more energy to accelerate, and generate CO2 emissions. And the extra congestion they cause makes other road users use more fuel. And they're less flexible in use. It would be much cheaper and more space efficient to use trolleybuses on a guided busway.
Trams are good where you have a *lot* of people to move in a steady stream along a dedicated track. Or is that a train?
Incidentally, the coach I'm driving today will be doing about 300 passenger miles/ gallon later, and did the same this morning,if you allow for the dead mileage. Our buses on stage carriage average about
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The busses I saw in London were doing about 3 passenger miles per gallon.
One passenger for every three busses.
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Only time I've ever been on an empty bus is where I've got on one at the terminus. And not for long.
Of course 'they' can't win. Ask a motorist why he never uses buses on a journey suited to them and the inevitable answer is 'all that waiting around for one'. Followed by 'too crowded'. ;-)
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That doesn't make either of them toxic. Didn't they teach you anything at school? I can drown in water, doesn't make it toxic.
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It will runs out when it fails. As everything does.
Without the subsidies, not a good return on capital.
I understand what renewable means. You obviously have no understanding of economics.
Why would you want to generate your own electricity from a generator? No mains where you live?
If solar generation were cost effective every single new building would be fitted with it.
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That's utter and complete shit.
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Only with poor quality petrol which isn't imported into this country.
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CO2 most definitely is toxic. (Not very toxic, you can take a few percent). And the carbon particles in diesel exhaust are carcinogenic.
Andy
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Tell that to Leah Betts.
Andy
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You are Correction, you are too senile to understand.
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Total bollocks - you are known to be senile.
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A Prius is cool. Propaganda about energy to make it. Daily Mail garbage. The Prius is now old hat technology - you never knew that.
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This dumb Chav again.
Conversions? Boy is he dumb.
This proves the man is mad.