It is unclear to me the meaning.
Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel:
Analogy follows.
SUV: 4,591
Air: 4,123
Bus: 3,729
Car: 3,672
Train: 2,138
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
http://199.79.179.77/btsprod/nts/Ch4_web/4-20.htm
(notes from site above)
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:57 AM
Subject: Trains - was Re: [biofuel] Making Something From Nothing
Here's something someone sent me about the London Underground - the Metro.
Very interesting
By the way, there's a major magazine that wants to run a big piece on
trains, the lack thereof, in the US mainly, also elsewhere. I've been
asked to write it, but backed off - too much research, too far away.
I guess I could contribute on the elsewhere bit. Anyone know a
trains guru/advocate
Here's something someone sent me about the London Underground - the Metro.
Keith
Cleanliness on London Underground
During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of
Forensics at University College London removed a row of passenger
seats from a Central Line tube carriage for
SkyTran
http://www.SkyTran.net homepage
How energy efficient is SkyTran?
Mathematically compares:
Light Rail, Diesel Bus, Auto, Electric Car, SkyTran (estimated at 200
plus mpg)
http://www.SkyTran.net/faq/index.htm#efficient
Keith Addison wrote:
By
Keith Addison wrote:
By the way, there's a major magazine that wants to run a big piece on
trains, the lack thereof, in the US mainly, also elsewhere. I've been
asked to write it, but backed off - too much research, too far away.
I guess I could contribute on the elsewhere bit. Anyone know
