It's not that horrible. 15kV 16.7Hz is still high power. And also, as the railway power network is essentially a separate network for electricity, changing all of this to the 25kV 50Hz system would be a big challenge and expensive as hell. Lastly, it's not that clear-cut. While, yes, the weight of onboard equipment could be reduced down to a third for Transformers, you still don't want your locomotives to be too light. They need to have some weight for tractive effort. IMO: not that bad, but still complicated to change.
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TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 34 pts · 215d
Where is Denmark? Is it safe‽ The map is too cropped!
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 215d
Sorry Denmark is gone too. I got really hungry
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 215d
Germany was just a warning. Give up Greenland if you dont want to be next.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 215d
Denmark is fine, it's just off the map
JoShmoe@ani.social · 6 pts · 215d
By extension so is Germany.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 215d
Not only that.
c/mapswithoutnewzealand
JoShmoe@ani.social · 2 pts · 215d
New Zealand? Never heard of it. Where is that again?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 214d
To quote Oscar Wilde:
Was it New Zealand or Utopia? I always confuse those two.
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf · 16 pts · 215d
Netherland's word nightmare. More ocean.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 215d
You mean, potential new land.
FishFace@piefed.social · 9 pts · 215d
It's free real estate baby
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 214d
More ocean AND all their land access goes through Belgium now.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 215d
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 215d
Map of Europe for functional railway be like:
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 214d
You have no idea
At least the biggest country to refuse 25 kV AC electrification is gone
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 214d
It's not that horrible. 15kV 16.7Hz is still high power. And also, as the railway power network is essentially a separate network for electricity, changing all of this to the 25kV 50Hz system would be a big challenge and expensive as hell. Lastly, it's not that clear-cut. While, yes, the weight of onboard equipment could be reduced down to a third for Transformers, you still don't want your locomotives to be too light. They need to have some weight for tractive effort. IMO: not that bad, but still complicated to change.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 215d
Guess they're Gerfew now
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 215d
I hate how much of a laugh this got out of me lol
halfdane@piefed.social · 8 pts · 215d
Oh nein, wo bin ich den jetzt hin geraten?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 215d
Alle Deutschen bewohnen jetzt die Insel Nürnberg.
halfdane@piefed.social · 3 pts · 214d
... aber hier wohnen? Nein danke.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 215d
Do the Dutch still speak drunk German if this happens?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 214d
Switzerland will have a hell of a set of steps down to the beach...
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 214d
A coast to rival Norway
anhkagi@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 215d
what is the tiny bit of non-germany that is left ?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 215d
Looks like Nuremburg
Riverside@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 214d
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
best post by ml lemming on lemmy
my regards
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
MEIN HIMMEL!
Lanske@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
Oh no poor neighbours!