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Do people normally remove the oxygen source with ICE fires? Wouldn't that be...the atmosphere?
The problem is the battery has everything it needs to burn already inside its chemistry. It doesn't need the atmosphere to supply oxygen.
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Trains in most nations are useful for everybody. And they are far more energy efficient, better for air quality and most importantly more space efficient. So when analysis what a government should invest in, it makes sense to invest in trains. I know that you can go everywhere with your car, but what if I told you not every single person had a car. I know, I know for Americans this is very hard to understand that suc…
Why are you talking about Americans? Trains are an optimisation for where there's enough utility to cope with the massive overhead they impose. That's how they're more efficient: they are only built where there's so much demand that it's worth putting a train there. They aren't general-purpose, and they need a lot of top-down control to make happen. They aren't like roads, where you can run a private bus service, rid…
Because its generally Americans who think its unfathomable to connect anything other then Tokio and Osaka by train.
We have villages with a few 100 people connected by train. You can transport bikes, cars, and cargo or people on a train. Just hop on.
And building a train isn't much more top down then building a general road. Many train companies historically have run locally with local control. And in rural places there is often a public owned bus running on the publicly owned road.
> hop in a car and go.
.... If you own a car.