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We need your help to tackle the transport challenge!
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Our aim is not to “drain the ocean” in a few months but to add a voice of engineering insight to the debate, demolish potential myths and legends and suggest some sensible ways forward. We don’t expect to achieve pinpoint accuracy in our investigation, but we can be honest about that. We want to establish some genuine truths and point to where more work or funding should be focussed. We need more information and guidance to existing reliable reports and research on carbon in materials mining and manufacture, infrastructure provision, renewal and maintenance, and end of life recycling. Please share your thoughts by commenting below.
Hum, now you can see why we are determined not to boil the ocean. It will be enough to demonstrate the reality for Transport. We've got some good stuff on the carbon footprint of a new battery EV or PHEV car. Hydrogen seems to be a difficult topic with much lobbying for "blue" hydrogen (basically made by burning fossil fuel) and the calorific content of the product. We can already say that with current technology a diesel train that had a fuel range of say 1200km would, if the engine and fuel tanks etc were replaced by battery power, might do 350km and if by hydrogen might do 100km. However, where we need more help now is in the construction and maintenance carbon of roads, railways and ports / transfer depots, as well as in the embedded carbon in new trains, planes and ships.
Hum, now you can see why we are determined not to boil the ocean. It will be enough to demonstrate the reality for Transport. We've got some good stuff on the carbon footprint of a new battery EV or PHEV car. Hydrogen seems to be a difficult topic with much lobbying for "blue" hydrogen (basically made by burning fossil fuel) and the calorific content of the product. We can already say that with current technology a diesel train that had a fuel range of say 1200km would, if the engine and fuel tanks etc were replaced by battery power, might do 350km and if by hydrogen might do 100km. However, where we need more help now is in the construction and maintenance carbon of roads, railways and ports / transfer depots, as well as in the embedded carbon in new trains, planes and ships.
