How much infastructure do you currently need to supply/build/etc. the oil/gas/coal system? Let's say you need that much plus some more to implement a distributed wind-turbine structure. But you don't need the heaviness (or the width?) and you are talking about dropping (or dragging, or pulling etc.) a descrete number of mechanical parts plus cables to a specific number of locations once-in-X-years. Let's say X=25. For the other 24 years and 300 or so days...peace and quiet...the lanes can grow over, vegetable can be planted...the lack of ongoing intensive polluting activity... For a given area there could be one factory (very small scale) near a train track and connected via communications media to other centres...best practice passed along...ever better and lighter machines helping humans to build an ever better and lighter system...
Sommat like that? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Good point, but re rg, the idea of resurrecting field railways, e.g. temporary tracks, is attractive to me... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
How about field maglev tracks? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Apart from the structures (which I imagine can be made out of ever lighter materials) which components are going to necessitate all this heaviness? Even the heavist components could be transported to within a km or so of site via light-rail
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
It looks very long, what is it, 60m? I can imagine that a track can be made in 60m-straight sections. Is it very heavy? Too heavy for a light-rail solution? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
