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Nichola Groom covers alternative energy issues in the United States for Reuters News. Based in Los Angeles, she has spent the last six months reporting on the burgeoning renewables industry, visiting facilities that turn cow manure into natural gas and the sun's heat into electricity. In the following story, she reports on driving a hydrogen-powered car.
We know we have to cut consumption of fuel and transform our society to provide necessities at lowest cost. One of those necessities is transportation. Whether we like it or not, the laws of Physics trump legislation. The overall winner for land based transportation is rail (as in steel wheel on steel rail). And the best propulsion system is powered by electricity - for efficiency and performance. At this time, the most reliable and cost effective way to power electric rail is by catenary (overhead wires).
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