Eight
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there is almost no legitimate reason to change anything about trains - their diesel consumption and carbon footprint is unmatchable by other means and there is not a lot of room for improvement with current technologies .
Diesel train engines get somewhere near 500 tons per mile in efficiency - short of floating cargo down a river on a raft, you aren't going to beat that. Its the distribution of shipped goods from yard to dock that might have a chance to reduce carbon footprint related to rail transport.
once we get this superconductivity technology worked out there will be no need for anything diesel
just because right now most metals have to be kept at roughly 250-300 degrees below 0 doesn't mean we won't have this stuff operational in no time. i listened to petey b during the democratic debates and if we can make fighter planes on production lines that made commercial plans and tanks on automotive assembly line how hard can it be to create a technology that for the most part exists only in physic labs