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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan As far as the railroads are concerned, they should get electric if possible. Electrifying of the entire system? Yes but be prepared to spend billions here and there hopeful starting slowly so spending isn't all at once. Big problem though. That is alot of power to transmit. For this I will break away from the socialist view of nuclear energy that it is bad. Nuclear power is only bad if you don't know what the hell you are doing (ie Three Mile Island and Chernobyl). There is one such country that has seemingly been a nuclear energy wizard for safety and that is Great Britain. They offered help to Chernobyl who unfortunatly refused. Get them as a consultant and listen to them and do what is required. There is also an interesting process that was being worked on. It was a reactor that performed a chain process of fission-fusion-fission (something like that) With that kind of energy, you could power quite a large grid, all that would be required is the physical infrastructure to support such a large output of energy. I don't know how much research if any has gone into diamonds as a part of energy along with energy (you have seen the movies) and I don't think there really is anything that resembles dilithium crystals on this planet anyways so I say go nuclear because this is not the 50s 60s etc, a lot safer and it's alot more productive and cleaner than coal and other fossil fuel generating plants. Also if possible, start some hydro dams and start thinking about geothermic and solar plants just to reduce the need for expensive high maintainance nuclear plants. Also as far as I know, there is no real safe way to dispose of radioactive waste other than lead cased holding cylinders stored deep beneath the ground usually in old mines. At any rate, more electric using rails and other mass transit including buses, would make for a cleaner environment as well as a more independent energy user that could give the finger to OPEC and be comfortable about it. [/quote]Junctionfan: Your points made are music to an old generating plant construcion type like me and are in more ways than one somewhat refreshing. Well said[#ditto] and my complements on a well thought out and well put posting[tup]
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