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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Junctionfan</i> <br /><br />I'm not sure it's possible without shooting themselves in the foot in terms of effecting profits from coal and fossil fuels of which coal is their more profitable commodities. <br /> <br />Electrification is the closest I would say that the railroads could do. Using my ideas, this would quell the those pesky environmentalist and still be cheap for the railroad. <br /> <br />I'll explain more if required but I am have to go to a business meeting at my club. <br />[/quote]Well said with-in the confines of a present day situaton. Consider if you will the use of nuclear energy much as it is used in your fine country (I believe they are called CANAC reactors). Expand on their use beyond the production of current. Rather that they use the heat for processing dirty coal into solvent refined coal, as I refered to earlier in this and other threads. This process cleans the product for clean qualified burning, keeps railroad busy in expanded areas where current coal supplies are not tier compliant giving employment back to the coalfields of the east and a more massive basis of business for the railroads.
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