ELECTRIC TRAINS

WERE  SOME  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS  THAT  WOULD HAVE CREATED PIECEMEAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRIFICATION AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILROAD NOT ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE THE CLERKS THREW LINDON COLLARD OFF THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT THE CNR DESPITE HIS HAVING A PERFECT PERFORMANCE RATING AND POSSIBLY THE HIGHEST SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEST SCORES EVER ACHIEVED? LINDON WAS A  CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILROAD EMPLOYEE FROM 1963 UNTIL HE WAS CHEATED OF EVERYTHING HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED IN 1970 BY CNR CLERKS AND A SYSTEMATICALLY CROOKED LAW SOCIETY PROCESS THAT DEFAMED HIM.

EXISTING SURPLUS ROLLING STOCK COULD HAVE BEEN CONVERTED INTO BATTERY CARS WHICH WOULD FEED POWER TO LOCOMOTIVES. BATTERY CARS COULD BE DROPPED OFF, SWAPPED FOR ALREADY CHARGED CARS AND THEN CHARGED FROM THE MAIN ELECTRICAL GRID WHEREVER THAT WAS POSSIBLE.

NOW THERE ARE BETTER BATTERIES AND BETTER ELECTRICAL CONTROL DEVICES. TRAINS COULD LEAVE TOWN WITHOUT EMISSIONS AND WITHOUT SOUND POLLUTION. BY TODAY A LOT OF CARBON EMISSIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED.

Wabtec's FLXDrive locomotive is described as the world’s first 100-percent battery-powered locomotive

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THIS MATERIAL IS FROM INFORMATION POSTED ONLINE.Since today's diesel locomotives typically run electric drive systems anyway, using the diesel engine as a generator, it's not difficult to convert them to DC battery power. You just need a big battery and the wiring to connect it to the drive system.

In the new study paper, the team proposes attaching dedicated battery boxcars behind the locomotive. Each boxcar, the team calculates, could pull as much as 14 MWh of energy storage in the form of long-cycle-life lithium ferrous phosphate batteries. You can run multiple locomotives, and/or multiple battery boxcars, to power a given train.

This study analyzes the energy use, practicalities and economics of a theoretical train operating in California, using four 3.3-megawatt locomotives pulling 100 boxcars and 6,806 tonnes of revenue-earning cargo, powered by a single battery boxcar.

It finds that this one large battery pack is enough to achieve a 241-km (150-mile) range, enough to meet the average distance between stops for US Class 1 freight trains. The weight of the battery car increases the train's energy use by about 5 percent, says the team, but the overall energy consumption of the train is about half what a typical diesel-electric train uses, thanks to the high efficiency of batteries and the ability to harvest some braking energy back into the system.

The battery cars could be charged at each stop during loading, unloading and crew changes, assuming a fast charger could be provided. This would take between 30-60 minutes using existing 2C charging technology. Alternatively, the battery car could potentially be swapped out for a fresh one – meaning little in the way of fancy infrastructure would be needed, and a spent battery could slowly charge up until it's next needed.

In terms of economics, the team calculated the total cost of ownership (TCO) for battery-electric and diesel-electric locomotives over 20 years, and found that battery-electrics should cost between US$6.47 to 8 million apiece, with the lion's share taken up by battery and charging infrastructure costs. Diesels will cost around $5.85 million each, the bulk of that taken up by fuel and maintenance.

But that's assuming there's no environmental damage costs – if these are levied "under the assumption of continued roll-out of the EPA Tier 4 rule," according to the researchers, this could take the TCO of a diesel locomotive up to $11.83 million.

Should the entire US rail sector electrify its fleets in this manner, the team points out that the country will 

effectively have some 200 gigawatt-hours of modular, mobile energy storage rolling around the country, 

portions of which can be dropped off to stricken areas suffering power loss from extreme weather events. 

This needn't cause the rail system to grind to a halt; the diesel engines are still on board, ready to go if needed. 

While connected to the grid for charging, they could also provide valuable fast-response load-balancing services, 

as well. Both of these could become revenue opportunities.

There is also the potential for diesel locomotives to be converted to run on ammonia, which would make the

energy storage smaller and lighter than hydrogen or batteries. Ammonia would also simplify fueling logistics. 

On the other side of the coin, green ammonia will be more expensive than hydrogen fuel, and burning it will be 

less efficient than running hydrogen through a fuel cell. 

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Lindon Collard: Aware of Climate Change since 1963

Even though the prognostication was not entirely accurate, the remedial action was still as effective as any action or limiting of action might be. Limit your driving and burning of oil.

It is really weird that the irrational opposition to well thought out plans was so lacking in forethought. From the theft of Charles Vincent Collard's trust he left to Lindon with which he was going to buy a small Hotel in 1964 in a Tiny College Capital City; undisturbed can you imagine the tiny carbon footprint this occupation would have produced, to the forced operation of a business in Victoria in 1984 in such a way that two full size cars drove an hour each way six days a week for two years to be replaced by living in a rented home in the City with a rented store and kids in childcare all along, whether Lindon and Betty were driving or renting. All of this activity wasted Lindon's every effort for six years. He said he was so tired he just wanted to sleep most of the time for years. Lindon was forced to do this and  to lose all his assets as well into the Wife's Business Gobble m'up.

YOU HAVE GOT TO REALIZE HOW MUCH EXTRA GLOBAL WARMING GASSES WERE CREATED JUST BY THESE FORCED ACTIVITIES STARTING WITH NO HOTEL, WHERE LINDON HAD TO BURN UP FOSSIL FUELS AGAINST HIS BETTER JUDGEMENT.

THE FORCED ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES CREATED GLOBAL WARMING GASSES.

BETWEEN THE "NO HOTEL" AND THE TWO CARS SIX DAYS A WEEK ACTIVITY:

THE FIRST OTTER POINT HOUSE WAS BURNT BY THE CRAZY REDNECK IN JUNE OF 1980. EVERYTHING LINDON HAD HAD HAD ALREADY BEEN  CONVERTED INTO GLOBAL WARMING GASSES IN FEW HOURS IN 1980.

FIGHTING CREATES WASTE

ON EVERY LEVEL I SEE FIGHTING WASTING THE RESOURCES OF THE EARTH.

PEOPLE TRAIN TO FIGHT AND WIN THEN OF COURSE THEY WANT TO FIGHT AND WIN, EVEN IF IT MEANS SOMEONE LOSES HIS PROJECT. THE FIGHT WOULD BE A HUGE WIN IF A BANKRUPTCY WOULD BE GENERATED OR A LOSS OF CAREER; CAUSING  IMPRISONMENT OR DEATH WOULD SHOW EVEN MORE GAME SKILL.

VIDEO GAME FIGHTING HAS LED TO MASS SHOOTING FIGHTING AND I THINK GAMERS ATTACK PERSONS WHO ARE NOT ATTACKING THEM BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU DO IN VIDEOGAMELAND AND IN POLICE TRAINING AS WELL. THEY ARE PRACTICED UP NOT TO DO TUNES OR LOST WAX CASTING OR HOME BUILDING BUT TO ATTACK AND TO FIGHT AND TO WIN.

A MUSICIAN PRACTICES EVERY DAY WITHOUT WASTING ANYTHING BUT TIME.

A POLICE RAID IS MANIPULATED, HIGH GAMESMANSHIP IN MANY QUARTERS. 

THERE IS A USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND THE LABOR OF ABLE BODIED PERSONS THAT THE CRIPPLED MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER COULD REALLY BENEFIT FROM IF THEY WERE USED TO AID HIM IN HIS DECADES LONG MUSIC PROJECT.

BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE, THEY ARE AT OTTER POINT OR THE ROCKCLIFFE OR IN COURT ATTACKING COLLARD.

THE HUGE GROUP, ALWAYS A HUGE GROUP, IS ATTACKING BASED ON SOME PERCEIVED ERROR OF OMISSION BY LINDON COLLARD OR AS PART OF A VIDEO GAME LIKE SCENARIO WHERE THEY HAVE POWER AND INFLUENCE AND THE USE IT IT FIGHT WITH THE UNDESERVING CAPITALIST OR THE ``HE`S CRAZY HE THINKS HE IS GOING TO BE A ROCK STAR`` MAN WHO IS PLUGGING AWAY UNKNOWING OF THE OPPOSITION.

SELF INTERESTED CLIQUES HAVE PUSHED THE EARTH TO IT'S LIMITS

THIS IS A SATIRICAL 

RESPONSE TO A 

PRESSING AND 

IMMINENT CRISIS 

CAUSED BY 

DEREGULATION AND 

A DISBELIEF IN THE 

EMPIRICAL FACTS 

ABOUT 

ENVIRONMENTAL  

SUSTAINABILITY.

ALL LAW WAS DODGED ON PLANET DODGELAW.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 

USING "LOOPHOLES" TO DODGE THE LAW IS NOT CLEVER, IT IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. THERE ARE REASONABLE LAWS WHICH PROTECT US WHEN WE ARE PEACEABLY AT HOME OR GOING ABOUT OUR PURSUIT OF OUR WORK, OUR ART OR OUR BUSINESS. I AM OFFENDED WHEN PEOPLE PERPETRATE ACTS WHICH THEY KNOW WILL DAMAGE ME OR EVEN CAUSE THE LOSS OF MY PROPERTY OR ITS UTILITY AND VALUE. I AM TERRORIZED WHEN THE AUTHORITIES FAIL AND REFUSE TO PROTECT ME. DODGING THESE LAWS TO BOTHER, IMPEDE AND TERRORIZE PEOPLE IS REPREHENSIBLE.

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE PLANET DODGELAW

June 22, 2022

 

SHOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS? 

NO, YOU SHOULD NOT. SEE THE FICTION AND SEE THE DODGE, THEY ARE CLUES THAT THIS WILL NOT BE REAL.

SELF INTERESTED ETHNOCENTRIC SELF PROTECTIVE CLIQUES CONTROLLED EVERY ASPECT OF SOCIAL, FINANCIAL, LEGAL  AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSACTIONS AND TOOK ACTIONS TO BENEFIT THEMSELVES EACH AND EVERY DAY IN EACH AND EVERY WAY.

EVERYTHING WORKED OUT JUST FINE ON PLANET DODGELAW. THERE WERE NO GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEMS, NOR PANDEMIC WOES, AND ABSOLUTELY NO INFLATION, RISING INTEREST RATES, IMPENDING FOOD SHORTAGES. THERE WAS NO DISINTEGRATION OF THE VALUE OF CURRENCY OR THE VALUE OF TH

WHEN EVENTS FROM THE "PAST" ARE REITERATED IT IS OFTEN TO PROVE THAT THE "FUTURE", NOW, IS AS IT WAS PREDICTED IT WOULD BE

THERE IS A TENDENCY TO OVERLOOK THE INCREDIBLE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING KNOWN WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND ACTING TO ASSURE THE "FUTURE" BY KNOWING THAT IN THE "PAST". 

HERE AT OTTER POINT THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS HAS BEEN VERY LIMITED SINCE THE HOUSEWIFE LEFT.

THERE ARE SEVEN ACRES OF FOREST ON THE LAND SURROUNDING KING SWAMP WHICH ABSORB A LOT OF CARBON DIOXIDE. FROGS ARE COMING BACK. A FEW WESTERN PEEPERS SING IN KING SWAMP AGAIN. 

IT IS TOO BAD FOR THE HUMANS WHO LIVE HERE AT OTTER POINT LOT A. HUMANS REQUIRE LARGE FLAT AREAS TO BE ABLE TO DO VIRTUALLY ANYTHING. THE DITCH BISECTS THE ONLY RELATIVELY FLAT LAND.

THE PORTION OF THE FOREST WHICH HAD THE TALLEST TREES WAS ON THE SOUTH AND THE EAST. THE TREES WERE CUT DOWN AND THE PRIVACY OF THE PROPERTY WAS TAKEN AWAY. THE SOIL WAS CUT DOWN ALSO, TO HARDPAN AND TRUCKED OFF. THE LAND IS INFERTILE AND CANNOT GROW ANYTHING BUT WEEDS.

PERHAPS THE WORST THING DONE TO SMALL AMPHIBIANS UP HERE ON TOP WAS THE DIGGING OF A SEVENTEEN FOOT DEEP DITCH TO PUT THE CREEK DOWN INTO AND DAMMING THE CREEK WITHOUT A MULTIPLE LEVEL CONTROLLABLE SPILLWAY. AS A RESULT NO WATER TRAVELS DOWN THROUGH THE CREEK EXCEPT DURING THE WINTER.

BULL RUSH FROG IS THE ATTACK AMPHIBIAN . I CAN STEAL AND POST OBSCURE CATCHES LIKE I SNAPPED UP BUGS IN KING SWAMP

 

LINDON COLLARD TOTAL RECALL

Friday, March 18, 2022

CLIMATE CHANGE IS PLAYING OUT IN THE SHORT TERM LIKE I SAID IT WOULD IN 1964

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN 2022 LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE 1964 "PARTICULATE POLLUTION" ICE MELTING SCENARIO WHICH I ESPOUSED WHEN I WAS AT UNB.

THE RESULT OF PARTICULATE POLLUTION DARKENING THE SURFACE OF ICE AND SNOW WOULD INCREASE MELTING AND CHANGE THE SALT WATER ON THE OCEAN SURFACE IN THE ARCTIC TO MUCH LESS SALTY WATER WHICH WOULD FLOAT ON TOP INSTEAD OF SINKING TO DRAW IN THE GULF STREAM WHICH IS HOW HEAT FROM THE TROPICS TRAVELS UP THE GULF STREAM TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND THE ARCTIC OCEANS TO WARM THE NORTH, ATLANTIC CANADA AND EUROPE. 

THE PREDICTION WAS "THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT WOULD SLOW". NOW WE KNOW MORE HEAT WOULD BE LEFT DOWN SOUTH TO FUEL HURRICANES. 

THE PREDICTED COLD WEATHER AND WINTER STORMS ARE HAPPENING NOW IN CANADA, THE US AND IN EUROPE. 

PART TWO OF THE THEORY DECLARED THAT THE EARTH WAS IN A DELICATE BALANCE, WHEN WITH WATER LEVELS HIGH DUE TO MELTING, THERE WAS A LOT OF AIR BORNE MOISTURE AVAILABLE WHICH  A COOLING MECHANISM LIKE VOLCANIC ERUPTION OR THE MIGRATION OF EARTH'S ORBIT COULD TURN TO SNOW AND PRECIPITATE AN ICE AGE BY DISTRIBUTING THE LOCKED UP ICE AND SNOW AT THE POLES EVERYWHERE OVER THE EARTH WHICH WOULD REFLECT THE SUNLIGHT BACK INTO SPACE.

THE INCREASE IN CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANE GAS POLLUTION PROBABLY HAS MADE PART TWO IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE GREENHOUSE GASSES WARMING THE EARTH REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER PROBABLY SHORT LIVED LACK OF HEAT DUE TO THE DISRUPTION OF HEAT DISTRIBUTION CURRENTS PHENOMENA.

LIGHT WEIGHT LOCAL ELECTRIC CARS MADE RIGHT HERE IN CANADA, OR IN CHINA, WHATEVER IT TAKES

THE MORE AND BETTER BATTERY YOU NEED THE MORE YOUR CAR WILL COST.

WHAT ABOUT A SMALL CAR WHICH HAS A SMALL BATTERY AND CONTINUAL AND CONSTANT RECHARGING.

EACH TIME A "LOCAR" STOPPED AT A LIGHT A PROBE COULD CONTACT A CONNECTOR AND RECHARGING COULD BE DONE. EVERY SHOPPING CENTER AND CITY PARKING SPOT COULD BE EQUIPPED.

IT IS POSSIBLE A DIFFERENT BATTERY OR POSSIBLY A CHEAP BATTERY ALREADY MADE COULD BE RE PROGRAMMED SO THIS PROCEDURE WOULD WORK PROPERLY. START RIGHT DOWNTOWN WHERE CONGESTION CAUSES WAITS.