rail transportation Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:09:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 World’s First Hyperloop to be Built in Spain (not US) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:08:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56724 Elon Musk will shape the future of transportation even if Tesla loses its place as the king of electric cars. One of his best ideas, the Hyperloop, is a capsule that travels at incredibly high speeds through a tube. Reaching 800 mph, or 1,200 km/h, the Hyperloop could take a passenger from Madrid to Barcelona in just thirty minutes. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/feed/ 1 56724 Oil Spill West Virginia – Tanker Derails and Explodes (and Just Keeps Burning) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oil-spill-west-virginia/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oil-spill-west-virginia/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:06:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53310 Yesterday, February 16, 2015, a CSX oil tanker train derailed outside of the small towns of Mount Carbon and Boomer, West Virginia, some 33 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. As oil extraction booms in the United States, so does the need for transportation. Unfortunately, the booming oil transportation industry has resulted in even more […]

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