Main Menu Contributions   Choo-Choo Trains on Energy Crunch Posted by: grass on Oct 09, 2003 - 09:51 AM   Written by Erik Baard, Jul. 03, 2002 / Wired Magazine http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53591,00.html Sierra Railroad thinks it can (It knows it can! It knows it can!) make electricity to meet California's peak summer demands. The short-touring and freight line, based in Oakdale, has 48 diesel locomotive engines in a rail yard waiting to produce 100 megawatts of electricity for use on the power grid. Moreover, the company is going to fuel them with 100-percent biodiesel, a cleaner-burning vegetable oil equivalent of the familiar petroleum product. The California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority has signed on to buy the locomotive project's electrical output for five years as part of the agency's plan to buy 250 megawatts of environmentally benign, or "green," electricity per year.   Login Choo-Choo Trains on Energy Crunch | Login/Create an account | Comments Threshold -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 No comments Nested Flat Thread Oldest first Newest first Highest scores first    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.