Who needed confirmation they're not imagining it? I can see it with my own eyes every single day.
Good point, time consumed by cooking has value in itself.
It would be next to impossible to get 4.5MW from the line to the motor using a third rail or something.
Most modern electric locos and EMUs are 6 MW and up on European 15 or 25 kV AC systems. 8-9 MW is very typical for higher end locos and the BR412 EMU in its longest configuration (for an example of the maximum I can think of) can pull 11.55 MW temporarily, and all of that is from one pantograph. Doing cargo with electric locos is only impossible in NA because... well, because you can't, because there is no elecrification. Every single corner to has been cut to save every imaginable cost. It's not like you could try and see what's better, you literally only have old-school diesel tech.
~~If you read the article, you would see that~~
if you believe the entirely baseless claim in that article, ...
There you go.
Very little space to do it differently I suppose
And the biggest issue is if its even doable.
Right we all didn't think of that, in that case let's just keep on overexploiting our finite resources and generate as much short term shareholder value as possible, because we don't know whether a sustainable approach would even fix some things that are possibly already beyond fixing due to overexploitation and generating short term value in the past.
I have chosen to believe they type that manually every time.
In very cold climates, having a hybrid system like the one you're describing is that universal no brainer in my opinion. Especially since most cold regions also typically have really long transitional periods where your heat pump is most efficient and pays itself off fastest. Combining that with turning it off during harsh winter weeks gives you the best of both worlds.
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Würde ich begrüßen.