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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4907)10/23/2006 7:37:17 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 24212
 
Electrified Rail: An Overlooked Mitigation Strategy for Peak Oil?
Posted by Robert Rapier on Friday October 20, 2006 at 9:19 AM EST

This a guest post by Alan Drake.
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Roger Bezdek is one of the co-authors of the "Hirsch" reports, AFAIK the only official US Government analysis of what to do about Peak Oil. Below is a link to an interview with Dr. Bezdek with links to his two reports.

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I have reservations about the proposed mitigation strategies (~$5 trillion for coal-to-liquids, oil shale, enhanced oil recovery and better vehicle efficiency) and believe that he has overlooked mitigation via electrified rail.

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