On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maintenance is expensive. Because the fuel is cheap but the equipment is > expensive, nuclear power plants have to be run 24 hours a day for "baseline" > generation. Otherwise they are not cost effective. They can be throttled back only so far. Did you know that, for wholesale customers, power is free between 2 and 4 am? I have a proposal for beltline.org that the trains be run on hydrogen cracked from water for free by MARTA, Ga Power's second largest customer. It would utilize the equivalent to a DMU (diesel multiple unit) common in Europe or a HMU.
