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Total CEO on peak oil | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

We talked about this. The point is that going from building along existing transportation infrastructure does not translate into building on a sparse 2D grid.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 10:11:21 AM EST
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By we talked about this, do you mean that past discussion on wind power along railways? If yes, you haven't made that point explicitely, and I understood what you were on about only now.

Good point, but re rg, the idea of resurrecting field railways, e.g. temporary tracks, is attractive to me...

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 10:17:53 AM EST
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Yes, field railways to get to a windfarm site is a great idea.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 10:25:10 AM EST
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Small tracks which could be built up to a range of, say, 10 km, then connected up to the nearest wind turbine(s) for power--the ones along the roads if we're thinking of how to get out beyond the current road/rail infastructure. Then you use the new wind turbine(s) to step out another 10 km in every direction?

How about field maglev tracks?

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 10:32:11 AM EST
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I'd call it completely unrealistic :-) Field railways were rarely electrified (their whole purpose is to be simple and easily re-layable), and if a field railway is to carry wind turbine parts itself, overhead wire would be in the way of the large pieces. If we want to go non-fossil here, I suggest battery locomotives.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 12:00:13 PM EST
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with the batteries charged by the turbines.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Tue Nov 7th, 2006 at 12:16:53 PM EST
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