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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Mar 3 14:45:32 2015, in response to Re: DC Streetcar 'possibly not going to happen', posted by SLRT on Tue Mar 3 14:13:56 2015. I have been told BART buys power generated by the turbines in the Altamont Pass area. Obviously unless you have a dedicated electrical path from source to use, the electrons get mixed. However, SF Muni DOES have electrical transmission lines from the Hetch Hetchy Dam hydro plant directly to SF, so in their case streetcars and ETBs are and have been running off hydro for most of a century. The PRR got hydro generated electricity for what we now call the NEC from the Conowingo (IIRC) Dam on the Susquehanna--again direct feed. As we build out more and more wind/solar we will need less fuel for electric generation. |
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