The operators say it is cheaper to send goods by train than by air and faster than by sea.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39549077
The operators say it is cheaper to send goods by train than by air and faster than by sea.
GASMON wrote:For every full train from UK to China there will 50 full ones in the opposite direction !!!!!!!
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Subjectivist wrote:Actually eliminating air freight would save a heck of a lot of fuel. For something like an organ transplant, okay, but for sneakers for a grand opening sale, not so much.
godq3 wrote:Subjectivist wrote:Actually eliminating air freight would save a heck of a lot of fuel. For something like an organ transplant, okay, but for sneakers for a grand opening sale, not so much.
Nothing would be saved. It would just be burned elsewhere. People want things. People's needs are limitless (almost everybody would want to win a lottery, top sportsmen earn over 10 million dollars a year, etc). To make/do "things", energy is needed. So when we save energy in one place, it will be used elsewhere. Generally, price mechanisms directs where energy is used. Whole world economy is just a scheme, to use available energy as fast as possible.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
GASMON wrote:All trains are electric through the Channel tunnel - diesels (due to fumes) are banned, though they may be hauled through dead.
30 x 40' containers is about right for such trains in the UK, we do not have mile long freight trains like the USA !! 775m long is the max train length on just a few UK lines. - Though they may well be longer on the continent.
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) simply blows out of the water anything else that’s been attempted in human history. As currently planned, it will involve some 7,000 separate infrastructure or extractive industry projects scattered across 70-odd nations, with a total price-tag of $8 trillion. It’ll span half the planet — from Asia to Africa, Europe and the South Pacific. It’ll affect every facet of human endeavor, in one way or another. In biodiversity and environmental terms, again, it’s the worst thing we’ve seen anywhere — and in the past forty years, I and my colleagues have seen some pretty horrific stuff in the Amazon, Africa, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
I actually think the BRI will have a greater net impact on ecosystems than it does global warming, at least for the duration of this century. [But it] will also be a major contributor to global warming, by promoting massive land-use changes, deforestation, industrial and transport emissions, and emissions from project construction. It’ll use more concrete — a major source of greenhouse gas emissions — than all pre-existing infrastructure projects on the planet.
Newfie wrote:Ibon,
I agree with Onlooker, it’s the beginning of the end for your Eden. Sorry.
Funny, guys. From what is approaching, makes one think you can run but you can't hideRevi wrote:I used to live in Guatemala, in the cloud forest. It's as good a place as any to witness what's going to happen. At least there's a chance of eating tortillas and beans for a while. I wouldn't worry Ibon. We're just as screwed as you are when the excrement hits the wind machine! I have a fantasy of a place to live post-peak too. I think it will get really bad around the time of my expiration date, so what the heck!
Ibon wrote: there are close to 200 million upper middle class Chinese with loads of disposable income wanting to go on holidays to remote places because of the hussle and bussle of urban life.
I already blocked off 2 weeks for the next high season for his groups. Chinese tourists here we come.......
I am going to be using our table saw and left over tropical wood from our constructions and make a few dozen chop sticks to get ready for the next high season.
Maybe one of these wealthy Chinese will buy us out when we are too old to go up the 4x4 road?
This is not the fast track to Doom. I see opportunity. Major opportunity. And I will milk it for all its worth.
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