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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sorry to be a buzzkill but ~70% of India's electricity is coming from coal powerplants. They are working on using nuclear and renewable but still currently it is mostly coal.

[–] zemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might still be better for the environment overall than running trains on oil. I don't know if any study exists on the topic.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure about efficiency of oil engines vs electric engines but at least infrastructure is already available and once India switches to nuclear/renewable it'll help massively....

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