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When folks suggest a new "changes everything" way to go fast, always remember that we used to run NY to Chicago at 120 MPH on steam power and bolted rails.
by systems_glitch 3y ago
When folks suggest a new "changes everything" way to go fast, always remember that we used to run NY to Chicago at 120 MPH on steam power and bolted rails.
- ghaff 3y agoYou're basically crossing a continental divide on that route and the time is similar to what it was a 100 years ago--which is about 10x what flying takes. (And costs a lot more today than flying.)
- tomatotomato37 3y agoI mean, we can now do that run at Mach 0.9 in 400 ton aluminum behemoths for the price of a nice dinner, so you know, things have changed
- systems_glitch 3y agoYour nice dinner and my nice dinner must be pretty different :P I was of course speaking to rail travel, which yeah, is not much cheaper anymore, and far less time efficient.
- bombcar 3y agoMaybe someone should just buy up some lines and run steam at 120 MPH again. If it burned natural gas it probably wouldn’t even be that polluting and it would rock hard.
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- jazzyjackson 3y agothere's a research institute in minnesota that is improving the efficiency of steam engines and manufacturing wood "biocoal" (charcoal) for fuel. https://csrail.org/ https://csrail.org/
- systems_glitch 3y agoThis is the cyberpunk dystopian future I signed up for :P
- Qwertious 3y agoThat link only works as http for me, not https. Interesting project though.
- systems_glitch 3y agoHuh, HTTPS works at home and work for me.