I recently was forwarded on social media a brief video of an Indian politician boasting about a hydrogen-powered locomotive in the Indian railways. Knowledge of basic logic, simple arithmetic, and elementary chemistry would have prevented that railway minister from making those utterly stupid claims but no such luck. What’s worse is that some equally ignorant Indians are thumping their chests and forwarding it around. This is sad.
Of course, most people don’t know much about the various technologies that power our modern world — and nor should they be expected to know. But those who are in charge of making decisions must know, and if they don’t, they must get expert opinion on those matters. Continue reading “Hydrogen Locomotives”
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