• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    For areas like Inner Mongolia, which is largely taken up by the Gobi desert, it isn't really feasible to electrify there, so this could be used as a much more energy dense battery than is feasible with standard battery technology, and with much less if any degradation over time. Electrolyze a bunch of hydrogen somewhere with power, then run the train on the hydrogen.

    • gaycomputeruser [she/her]M
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      3 years ago

      Its genuinely so foreign to me to actually have a new engineering feat be designed to solve an issue and not just as a spectacle. :sadness-abysmal: