Re: Global Warming: Junk science at it's [best] worst



Joel Kolstad wrote:

"Richard The Dreaded Libertarian" <null@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

And it's profitable because some people would rather take an airplane
than a train or bus or drive themselves, even given all the "security"
crap they have to go through.

Although people certainly don't enjoy the added "security" of airplanes,
unfortunately busses and trains in the U.S. are just too slow. Not because of
the necessary distance traveled and the speeds allowed, but rather because of
the number and duration of the stops they make. The Europeans seem to do much
better in this area, at least with trains.

The very effective French answer to very high speed train operation was to lay
entirely new purpose-built lines. Normal operation daily takes these trains to 200
mph and of course it holds the record for a railed vehicle of 357 mph.

You simply can't have mixed operation with speeds that high.

Whatever happened to this btw ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAC_TurboTrain

Graham



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