>>1794547>Better for the environment"Renewables" are crap so the only real way forward from fossil fuels is nuclear power.
>https://drexel.edu/~/media/Files/greatworks/pdf_sum10/WK8_Layton_EnergyDensities.ashx>>1794549>Even much electrics couldn't compete with second generation diesels.Tbh, making them competitive would require a revolution in energy generation that would lower prices. Like localised power generation or HVDC to reduce transmission losses. Or a massive spike in oil prices.
>>1794553There's no demand for them because the initial experiments with 6k HP diesels failed as the prime movers were unreliable.
I will agree that for a lot of situations in the US, high tractive effort trumps high hp. But for getting heavy trains to places quickly, electric is king, especially with the development of high HP AC motors.
