AirScape Engineer's Blog » railroad http://blog.airscapefans.com All About Whole House Fans + bonus opinions on energy. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:30:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Trains and coal strange bedfellows http://blog.airscapefans.com/archives/trains-and-coal-strange-bedfellows http://blog.airscapefans.com/archives/trains-and-coal-strange-bedfellows#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:26:01 +0000 neil http://blog.airscapefans.com/?p=2130 We love railroads. Who can’t love their efficiency. BUT… They like coal. They really like coal. According to this report 44% of railroad car traffic is coal. And coal is dirty. It’s dirty in terms of carbon emissions. It’s dirty (but can be cleaned) in terms of particulate emissions. It’s not all that wonderful in terms of mercury dispersal either.

So, which way do you think railroads will lobby (they are corporate “citizens” after all).  Will they throw their weight towards laws which reward efficiency => win for rail transportation. Or will they throw their weight behind more coal burning => still good for railroads.?

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