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The usual brake on a train that can't do regenerative breaking is a big grid of resistors to dump the energy as heat. It's much less wear and tear than frictio
by Symbiote 2mo ago
The usual brake on a train that can't do regenerative breaking is a big grid of resistors to dump the energy as heat.
It's much less wear and tear than friction brakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_braking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_braking
- rsynnott 2mo agoAnd diesel hydraulic trains (and some buses) usually use these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarder_(mechanical_engineering)#Hydraulic_retarder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarder_(mechanical_engineeri...