I saw a video once about them. They use they generators to slow the train down coming down mountains. They then use the electricity to heat conductors, thus wasting it.
If we cannot afford to take care of Veterans, then we should stop making them. David C. Wilker Jr. USAF (RET) On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Tom Mandera via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > And they are already electric vehicles - just supplied by diesel > generators. > > On Sep 22, 2015 4:33 PM, Bill Dube via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Interesting point. Also, the cars "draft" one another so the air > > resistance is quite low as well. > > It takes only ~0.6 HP to move per ton to propel a train 50 mph. About 5% > > of the energy that it takes to move a truck or a car at the same speed. > > http://www.brooklynrail.net/science_of_railway_locomotion.html > > > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150923/5b7b5967/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
