First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.

  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Because now you have to build an electrified track infrastructure in instead of using an already built railway track.

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        1 year ago

        Jeez if only smart people thought of that.

        Real answer: it’s actually a lot of logistics and technical challenge to bring overhead lines to the whole of eve a small country like England. A lot of these tracks are in regions where there’s no power lines nearby. You still want the trains to go to and through these places.

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          1 year ago

          That’s logic comparing the economic costs of diesel to electric. If you compare the economics with hydrogen, it makes much more sense to run the wire with the track, independent of the availability of electricity.

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            Hydrogen could be used as a bridge gap measure. It’s relatively easy to move diesel engines to hydrogen. And hydrogen production, even when using gas, is still better than diesel engines.