Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[airbiscuit]

Clean coal -

 

[Grumpycat]

I *think* trucks pay significant taxes beyond the taxes on the fuel they use. Whether or not their total tax is proportional to the wear on the roads that they cause is somewhat of a moot point. We essentially pay their taxes as consumers of the products that they are transporting.

Not since the trucker strikes of the 1970's. Government is now afraid of truckers.

 

[Grumpycat]

Clean coal -

Your ignorance is showing.

Coal in a USA electric plant is cleaner propelling a Tesla Model 3 than a 50 MPG Prius on gasoline.

 

[airbiscuit]

Each year, more and more coal fired power plants in the US are being decommissioned or converted to natural gas. For coal, the handwriting is on the wall.

 

[Jstpssng]

Trucking is heavily subsidized by the government, and has grown beyond all reason as a result. Many times, over half the capacity of our freeways is occupied by freight trucking, leading to endless traffic jams. Rail is many times as energy and labor efficient, but America is still limping along on 19th century rail technology. We lost our chance to nationalize our rail system in the 1930s, and it has been deteriorating ever since. Many communities no longer have rail service, which would have been unthinkable a century ago.

Rail is undependable and slow. Sawmills have tried sending wood that way and gotten burned; once it's on a RR car you lose control over it. Picture loading logs onto a car in June destined for a veneer mill, only to have it unhooked and left on an obscure siding for whatever reason. By the time it gets where it's going two months later your 1/4 million dollars worth of wood has spoiled and become firewood.

 

[MossRoad]

Clean coal -

No kiddin. Cleaner than decades ago? Yes. But clean? No.

 

[Citydude]

Don't worry, we've got your back. Since coal triggers some of the more emotional parts of the nation, were coming up with a plan....

Next-Gen Nuclear Plant and Jobs Are Coming to Wyoming

TerraPower's decision to build its advanced reactor in Wyoming expected to create jobs and clean energy opportunities for the state.

www.energy.gov

 

[MossRoad]

Trucking is heavily subsidized by the government, and has grown beyond all reason as a result. Many times, over half the capacity of our freeways is occupied by freight trucking, leading to endless traffic jams. Rail is many times as energy and labor efficient, but America is still limping along on 19th century rail technology. We lost our chance to nationalize our rail system in the 1930s, and it has been deteriorating ever since. Many communities no longer have rail service, which would have been unthinkable a century ago.

Pain in Trains Falls Mainly on Grain​

They no longer have rail service because they have nothing to be serviced by rail.

 

[Hay Dude]

They have changed hands a few times. Toshiba owned for a while. The owning holding company may be in the UK now. Still has American offices for design and support work.

Really?
Surprising, I thought they were just some legacy name the Chinese paste on Christmas wall projectors and LED flashlights, but they still build nuclear power plants.
if you say so!

 

[Hay Dude]

Both times. Twice now, we've bailed them out.

Prolly why Stellantis owns them now after Damlier cut them lose