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Maybe algae oil will pan out, maybe not. It is a bit early to tell.Maybe the fuel cell locomotive will pan out too. It just might turn out that hydrogen is easier to store than electricity. If it pans out, it will be a sort of storable, catenaryless electrification. But, again, it is a bit early to tell.Maybe the bacteria that eat sulfur, generate sulfuric acid, and hollow out caverns out west might eat sulfur in coal.Being a bit early to talk about such things, we just might need something in a hurry, say, if the Straits of Hormuz are cut off and oil does not get through. My suggestion is, again, the van Sweringen Berkshire, a highly effective and proven design. It is a KISS solution to a possible emergency. We might get adventurous enough to try 300 lb. pressure, poppet valves, a Porta/Wardale boiler, and a Lempor exhaust. And we can build the KCS Class J 1-10-4 off the same tooling. That might be how we keep trains running in a pinch.
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