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Yes in India gets coal super cheap and they use a ton of it to make their electric. All these electric cars are just coal cars, all these electric trains are ju
by lumberingjack 5y ago
Yes in India gets coal super cheap and they use a ton of it to make their electric. All these electric cars are just coal cars, all these electric trains are just coal trains
- Maakuth 5y agoThey are also building quite a bit of solar power. The obvious difference between actual coal trains and electric trains (even running on coal electricity), is that you don't need to change a thing in the trains themselves to reduce the emissions of the system. Certainly it would be nicer if India already generated their electricity carbon neutrally, but moving from coal powered electric trains to PV powered electric trains is so much easier than from diesel trains.
- jeltz 5y agoSure, but most of Europe use electric and we generate a lot of our electricity from nuclear and hydro. By switching to electric India can change to other sources of electricity in the future.
- nathancahill 5y agoAh yes, I love Factorio.
- nenaan 5y agounderated comment.
- manquer 5y agoIt is in parallel to solar investments in station and on top of trains and along the tracks as well. My understanding is that they plan to go fully green. Given the variations in solar generation and no mention of storage I am assuming it is equivalent green power to offset rather than actual used.