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Originally Posted by Big Dave
Practical electrified surface transportation means electrifeid freight railroads and maybe electrified truck lanes on the superslab. Big trucks are approaching the power where they have to go to electric drive. About 1200 HP is about the limit for mechanical transmissions.
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Make wired hybrids that make use of batteries for acceleration so the connections would not have to handle as much power.
Or use superconductors to extract power from existing radio stations to supplement another power source. Just needs more research and development to work. Nikola Tesla Page, Tesla's power receiver
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If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
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