by Oui
Thu Nov 27th, 2025 at 07:50:52 AM EST
Regenerative Energy Transportation Systems
The first time I started thinking about regenerative energy systems was reading the following passage about the Milwaukee Road, the electric railway system of the late 19th and early 20th century in the book Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives [by Edwin Black, NY: St Martin's Press, 2006].
Video of Edwin Black on his book at C-span:
"Sometimes electrified railways seemed to defy the laws of perpetual motion. For example, when the brakes were applied or the train traveled down a slope, the engine actually returned electricity to the grid. Regenerative braking and similar power returns helped the engines pay for themselves."
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Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author of 200 award-winning editions in 20 languages in 190 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe, and Israel. With more than 1.6 million books in print, his work focuses on human rights, genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropy abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy and historical investigation. Editors have submitted Black's work thirteen times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years he has been the recipient of a series of top editorial awards. He has also contributed to a number of anthologies worldwide.
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Black's eleven award-winning bestselling books are IBM and the Holocaust (2001 and 2012), Financing the Flames (2013), British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement (2011), The Farhud (2010), Nazi Nexus (2009), The Plan (2008), Internal Combustion (2006), Banking on Baghdad (2004), War Against the Weak (2003 and 2012), The Transfer Agreement (1984 and 2009), and a 1999 novel, Format C:.
Edwin Black Biography - house.gov/meetings FA
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