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Originally Posted by dahermit
You have two points going here. One is that fossil fuels are a bad choice; few would disagree. The second point if about building an underground high speed rail system. Building it under ground will not produce some kind of magical system that will not use fossil fuel. It will still use electricity produced mainly by fossil fuel. If you want a high speed railway system (like Europe and Japan), it would be much, much cheaper to build it on the surface.
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A surface system would be susceptible to bad weather conditions,ie snow storms,floods,ect,ect.How many times have Airports been closed due to snow storms,or icy conditions.?One of the main advantages of constructing this high speed rail network underground is to avoid bad weather conditions.
This is why I propose that it be constructed underground.This futuristic subterrainian system should be built deep enough to avoid all major surface conditions and/or obstacles.
There are also other methods that can be used to generate electricity,other than "fossil fuels";ethanol,nuclear, and hydroelectric, are being utilized more often now.So is coal.