Posted on 08/21/2023 10:01:33 PM PDT by lowbridge
I thought Amtrak was a rail company.
Busses???
That’s normal today.
Then government subsidizes the unions retirements, or levies a 2% sales tax on everything as in DFW to help pay for their BS public transit system, or pumps money into them in the form of “infrastructure” spending... But it gets really funny when these semi government entities donate for political candidates and parties that support more government spending!!!
I can’t imagine the size of the battery(s) and the charging time involved. And the possible explosion and fires.
Yup, all of that weight will degrade and destroy roads
Plus, the tires will wear out faster. The higher frequency of more expensive tire changes will increase variable cost per mile to operate the junk
Amtrak operates busses for when the trains break down or are blocked, or to extend service between two rail lines.
It is a bigger deal on the West Coast, where freight lines are so much more important.
I give it a month before the bus breaks down and has to be replaced with a regular bus.
“Not counting the belching coal furnaces of the power company, of course.”
They have scrubbers.
Amtrak hasn’t made a profit from 1972 and now this bonus round.
Yep. I take Amtrak from Salem, OR to Seattle. At some times of day, Salem to Portland is a bus, which connects with the Amtrak Cascades.
Yep. We’re suckers. A Solyndra by another name.
Thruway service has been operating for decades, whether to fill “gaps” left by railroads closing or to supposedly supplement rail service that can’t operate due to freight traffic occupying time slots on the railroad.
No passenger rail can, thanks to regulations in place for a span of time now approaching a century but particularly aggravated post-WWII.
It should be fun getting parts from a bankrupt company.
Lol.
“ Amtrak, which partnered with the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT)”
Aren’t WSDOT the same idiots who disposed of a beached whale carcass with dynamite with disastrous and some what hilarious results?
Santa Fe went BNSF for a reason
“...chemically Lithium is a cousin of magnesium, another highly reactive alkaline earth metal.”
Strictly speaking, lithium is an *alkali* metal (like sodium), because it has one available electron, while magnesium has two.
And it is so reactive, pure lithium has to be stored away from oxygen, including air.
Magnesium is very interesting. If you lower a burning magnesium ribbon into a jar of CO2, it continues to burn ... and gives off black smoke! In other words, it grabs the oxygen right out of the CO2 and leaves the C. Talk about “carbon emissions” -:)
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