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Ok, so you need 30MW nominal power to run a TGV or ICE on wind. That's a windfarm 750m in radius. If you want to have one train in each direction every half hour, you will have one train on every 75Km of track. So a 750m-radius windfarm for each 75Km of track... Doesn't seem that bad.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Sep 27th, 2006 at 08:33:59 AM EST
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