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That depends entirely on how your electricity is generated, right? For example, French trains presumably do a lot better than merely 10x.
by mikeash 7y ago
That depends entirely on how your electricity is generated, right? For example, French trains presumably do a lot better than merely 10x.
- microcolonel 7y agoDepends on how many passengers are on the train. Here in Ontario, the provincial trains along the busiest corridor in the province (probably the country) are, anecdotally, about 5% full per average unit distance travelled, even at peak times in the busiest legs of the corridor, you're likely to see about a fifth of the seats empty. I doubt the GO train's passenger load factor is as good as AmTrak, for example.
- jessriedel 7y agoAgreed, though my impression is that most of the highest speed trains are in Japan, which nationally runs roughly 80% on fossil fuels. And per Carbon Engineering, it also depends on how your hydrocarbon fuel is generated too :)
- Gibbon1 7y agoWhack thing about Japan and fossil fuels is it's totally untapped geothermal.