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Solar powered trains?
Just for fun!!!
Union Pacific Box car is 50 feet long and 9.3 feet wide.
Our stick down solar panels are 15 inches wide and long and 216 inches long.
So we could put them 8 across and about three long. So that would be 24 panels on each box car. Our panels are 136 watts each!!!
136 watts each x 24 panels would be 3264 watts on each car.
Typical Florida train of 100 cars??? 3265 times 100 = 326,400 watts!
For those of you from Rio Linda thats about 500 HP!!!
Well I don't think 500 hp would push a train all that much.
So Al gore saying switch from oil/gas/diesel directly to electric would not work here at all. The cost of our panels BTW would be 1.6 million dollars!
Solar has it's place but not running a train.
Want to laugh a small Los Angles class reactor would fit in one engine.
A 100 megawatt unit is 134,102 HP. I think that might be enough to push a train along!!!!
10 years on fill ups!
100 megawatts
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Too much junk/toys to mention, ever changing due to too getting bored too quickly. I need a 10 step program!
Want to call? I'm in the book. Want to argue....First explain the square root of negative one....lol
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