Comment 22541

By Jon (registered) - website | Posted May 05, 2008 at 16:06:50

A couple points to respond to WRCU2.

Calgary's LRT runs completely on wind generated power. It is grid connected but the wind turbines installed in this initiative supply more energy to the grid than the LRT takes, so effectively the LRT is wind powered.

Hamilton used to have rail transit that operated on hydro power. The Hamilton, Beamsville and Grimsby Electric Railway switched to hydro after the first hydroelectric generating station was installed in the area.

Electricity may be generated using cleaner methods and the grid will remain the same. Whatever systems we build using electrical energy are adaptable to the energy sources of the future. Any energy source can be converted to, stored and transferred as electricity. The most efficient way to use electricity is to transmit directly through a high voltage grid rather than storing it in batteries or as hydrogen. The future of tranportation is in clean power sources and grid-connected light rail vehicles.

Wind power is not a joke. I was at an international trade show recently and there must have been at least a dozen companies that produced or made material for wind turbines. This is an industry that is growing and developing itself rapidly. It is just slow to catch on over here.

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