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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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