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To: Eric who wrote (15509)12/18/2009 11:03:47 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86356
 
Norway has a population of 4.5M
Sweden has a population of 9M

Germany - 83M
UK - 61M

The point being....the bulk of those electric trains are still fossil fuel powered. And will be for a long time.

And there is only so much power that can be generated by wind and solar. Hydro is great..I love it. And it is even practical in a country like Norway that has lots of mountains, rivers and coastline.

In a place like the UK it's probably going to have limited viability.