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It’ll move energy use from highly inefficient personal vehicles burning gasoline to highly efficient trains using mostly renewable electricity, during the summe
by kuschku 4y ago
It’ll move energy use from highly inefficient personal vehicles burning gasoline to highly efficient trains using mostly renewable electricity, during the summer where more than enough electricity is available.
- k8sToGo 4y agoStill plenty of diesel run train engines in Germany. Also coal is still being burnt. So I don't think it is mostly renewable.
- kuschku 4y agoIn both of these cases, the energy per person-kilometer of transportation is orders of magnitudes lower than with an ICE car. So the energy usage would still go down
- april_22 4y agoI think that the Deutsche Bahn runs 100% on clean energy.
- sneusse 4y agohttps://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln 40% ~ 400MW of this coal plant go directly to DB. They argue that it’s only used for freight and not for public transport but meh - a useless differentiation IMO.
- iggldiggl 4y agoIf this was really about saving energy, they wouldn't also simultaneously lower gas taxes during the same period as well.