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Electrification of rail might be one of the most important single Silver BBs
right before us for tackling economic, energy, and environmental challenges.
On this, a guest post from the
impassioned and thoughtful rail/transport thinker BruceMcF …
Having lost sight of our goals we redoubled our efforts    - Mark Twain
The Steel Interstate concept is both powerful and simple. Electrify [...]

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T Boone Pickens continues his relentless, high-cost media and publicity effort to promote The Pickens’ Plan to seemingly raving audiences, selling a superficially appealing but fundamentally unsound concept.
In short, T Boone is calling for generating more electricity from wind, using that to displace natural gas from the electricity system, and then using that natural gas [...]

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When it comes to Global Warming, there should be at least one arena of full agreement: there is no excuse not to be pursuing a “no regrets” strategy. E.g, pursuit of policies, programs, and technologies that make sense no matter whether you accept the weight of scientific evidence or are hoping that the skeptics at [...]

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