new ECO4 energy saving technologies have been installed, including a new permanent magnet motor that delivers increased propulsion chain efficiency and a "driver assistance system."
This may be useful, but the emissions for trains are already low per passenger. It is just icing. We need to be investing in carbon capture and make all stations ready for the tech when it arrives.
new ECO4 energy saving technologies have been installed, including a new permanent magnet motor that delivers increased propulsion chain efficiency and a "driver assistance system."
This may be useful, but the emissions for trains are already low per passenger. It is just icing. We need to be investing in carbon capture and make all stations ready for the tech when it arrives.
new ECO4 energy saving technologies have been installed, including a new permanent magnet motor that delivers increased propulsion chain efficiency and a "driver assistance system."
This may be useful, but the emissions for trains are already low per passenger. It is just icing. We need to be investing in carbon capture and make all stations ready for the tech when it arrives.
Although the mention of a magnetically levitating train outside of US borders won't grab too much attention, saying that phrase here most definitely perks up ears.
TOKYO (AFP) - - A Japanese rail operator said Wednesday it plans to introduce the world's fastest train in the next two decades, a next-generation maglev built at a cost of 45 billion dollars.
Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan said late Friday that it made the investment because of Railpower's "market potential" and what it sees as increasingly stringent environmental regulations targeted at the rail sector.
The implementation of new high-speed transport technologies re-shapes the demand balance between transport modes and rebound effects may occur. In this paper first a definition of environmental rebound effects of high-speed transport is presented and various cases are discussed. Second, a method is developed to determine and quantify the environmental rebound effects employing life cycle assessment. The method is illustrated in a case study by investigating the greenhouse gas emissions of a frequently discussed future underground maglev train system for Switzerland.
A hybrid electric train built by Bombardier just took its inaugural trip in France. Diesel locomotives have always been a kind of hybrid -- their diesel engines charge batteries which power a gigantic electric motor. But this new train can run on electric power from any source available (not just the engine.) The trains will be charged with grid power, and will produce roughly 20% less CO2 than non-hybrid versions.
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