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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by taoistextremist on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:00PM (#16172414)
Tesla batteries can be pretty damaging to the environment to produce. Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed). Rail is also a much more efficient way, with regards to energy, to transport that many people as opposed to buying near 2 million Teslas.
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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by randoramax on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:50PM (#16173230)
> Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed).

Jeez! You know Tesla batteries and you don't know that high speed trains are electric?? WTH

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by kelnos on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:08PM (#16173353)
Rail doesn't run on batteries; the track is electrified, which overall gives you a lower environmental impact than manufacturing a ton of Tesla batteries.
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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by taoistextremist on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:04AM (#16177549)
Yeah, I wasn't thinking, I guess, brain fart because I was thinking how the US refers to systems of non-electrified rails that can carry trains at above 115-mph as "higher-speed".
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