BrotherEstapol t1_it06geu wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:45 PM

Reply to comment by Kinexity in Australia can Slash Emissions 81% by 2030 using six Existing Technologies by DisasterousGiraffe

I think it's Road Trains (semi-trailers) would be larger contributors than Railway trains. Replacing the diesel trucks with hydrogen powered electric trucks would go a long way, but we need to get green hydrogen generation set up, as well as the refueling infrastructure.

Can be done, but not quickly unless the state and federal governments throw a lot of money at it.

Kinexity t1_it072ol wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:50 PM

Australia moves a fuckton of cargo and people by trains already. Road trains are objectively worse in every circumstance except when it costs too much to put railway somewhere and I'll make an educated guess that they don't contribute that much to the problem of emissions as they go to low pop density areas.