Deb Chachra on Nostr: Love this proposal to use freight train capacity freed up by the drop in coal usage ...

Love this proposal to use freight train capacity freed up by the drop in coal usage to move batteries full of renewable energy around. It's an energy sneakernet! like how the highest bandwidth file transfer for a lot of data is still just a truck full of hard drives.

“... a single [train] can deliver the energy of two nuclear plants operating for an hour – across the existing rail network to where and when it is needed."

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/07/renewable-energy-on-rails-scheme-to-cure-transmission-line-blues/