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Most of the length is electrified already. Yekaterinburg-Madrid definitely, Kazakhstan-Yekaterinburg likely, China-Kazakhstan connection and Chinese side probab
by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Most of the length is electrified already. Yekaterinburg-Madrid definitely, Kazakhstan-Yekaterinburg likely, China-Kazakhstan connection and Chinese side probably remains an issue.
- jdietrich 10y agoI would wager that Chinese and Russian electricity is no cleaner than diesel. They have an awful lot of old coal power stations burning lignite and sub-bituminous coal.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoMost of Russian generation is natural gas, with notable hydro and nuclear. Anyway, this is fixable. Planes and ships are not.
- _coldfire 10y agoThe Chinese source 25% of their electricity from renewables. US is at 15%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_production_from_renewable_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...