• Hildegarde
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    326 months ago

    US air travel can be decarbonized by replacing it with electrified passenger rail. Trains with a pantograph don’t need to store energy. Nearly all of the challenges of electrifying transportation are already solved and just require the infrastructure to be built.

    Air travel should only be used for routes that cannot be serviced by electrified rail.

    • @CaptainSpaceman
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      116 months ago

      The problem isnt r ex ally about pollution, its about how to increase corn production for America.

      • Hildegarde
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        106 months ago

        America has many problems. A lack of corn isn’t one of them.

        • @CaptainSpaceman
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          6 months ago

          E85 was the first big push after “corn fed beef” was everywhere. Then it became sanitizer due to COVID.

          Now that all of those are waning, something new IS needed for the industry to maintain its revenue expectations.

          Its not about “lack of corn” its more akin to “how much more money can we make off the current volume of corn we push”