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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper There are a number of safe nuclear options that are being developed, and they would require the power to be used by electricity. Some have the potential to really bring down electric power costs greatly. This can explain why GM is pushing Hydrogen and fuel cells. Battery use of this cheap electricity would be far more efficient and practical. Range? Poor range with electric cars? Instead of a slow overnight charge just to go 250 miles, you simply pull up to a filling station, your spent but rechargeable battery is slid out and a freshly charged one is lid in, and off you go for another 250 miles. With today's technology. So, I am writing the GM CEO asking, that on the basis of the very thorough evaluation of fuel cells and Hydrogen by the City College of NY Physics Department, that the 500 engineers he has working on Hydrogen - fule cell cars be reassigned to something useful. I'll try and make the letter polite. Of course if any of these nuclear power generation systems have practical breakthroughs soon, it good really spur railway electriciation and a rteal modernization of the nations power network.. That would also solve the railway capacity problem. But what about the loss of coal revenue? Hauling nuclear waste instead? To the safe sites? But some of these systems have very little waste,m the radioactivity gets all used up usefully! For one website that may occasionally enlighten on nuclear power, try www.mit.edu [/quote]A very eloquent and well written arguement. I do however recommend that you revisit the economic purpose of the railroad. While you are doing this also consider such small things as the economics of scale, profitability of cargo hauled, and the need for a viable product for capital invested. I also would like to hear about the profitability of hauling nuclear waste, being somewhat small in volume when compared to that of coal with present models of volume in this service would be interesting to hear. If I am reading you correctly, your entry would probably cause even more unemployment in the coalfields and with railroad labor. Your arguements also do not give consideration of some very expensive capital currently in place and mostly only partialy paid for with electric utilities that primarily use coal for baseload requirements in their franchise areas (which are mostly in the Midwest and Southeast.). This makes your arguement sound at best a bit naive and a worst somewhat narrow in scope and sectional in its view. Would you please expand your entry to address these matters.
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