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Meanwhile, in America...
If you like China so much...
> If technology proves to be viable, a 2,200-km trip from Wuhan to Guangzhou could be reduced to around two hours Driving, this is only 984km. Shouldn't it be one hour?
Meanwhile, in America...
Europe is leading the world in electrification and they are likely getting that power from greener energies. The US’s diesel-electrics are nasty but hopefully they will become fully electric in the long term or offset in the short term by improving passenger car pollution and building more renewable energy sources.
China’s energy sources are very nasty pollution wise and impact the environment in bad ways (hydro power, Three Gorges dam).[4]
Anyone know the pollution difference from using coal to power a train or using an ICE train?
I’m all for passenger trains and would love high speed rail but I also enjoy a healthy debate with some sources.
[1]https://theconversation.com/rail-travel-is-cleaner-than-driv...
[2]https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-world...
[3]https://www.railjournal.com/regions/europe/european-passenge...
[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
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dang, can we ban this account? It looks very suspicous (posting a lot of pro-China stuff, username, etc.)
> If technology proves to be viable, a 2,200-km trip from Wuhan to Guangzhou could be reduced to around two hours Driving, this is only 984km. Shouldn't it be one hour?
You also need to accelerate and decelerate, so the average speed (Vavg) will be much lower than 1000km/h.
So, as someone that lived in New York for 6 years and California for 6 years, stories like this are incredibly depressing. The US is the world's largest economy and should be the shining example of amazing infrastructure, high-tech, green cities, and forward thinking policies. California is an especially egregious example in terms of infrastructure investment: If California was a country it would be the world's fifth…
You're not going to get very many high cost infrastructure problems solved when the government doesn't force the issue. Socialism is a red herring, the real greatest enemy of capitalism is the unregulated free market.
So, as someone that lived in New York for 6 years and California for 6 years, stories like this are incredibly depressing. The US is the world's largest economy and should be the shining example of amazing infrastructure, high-tech, green cities, and forward thinking policies. California is an especially egregious example in terms of infrastructure investment: If California was a country it would be the world's fifth…