{"id":139550,"date":"2022-05-18T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ingenious-electric-train-fully-charges-itself"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:33:38","slug":"ingenious-electric-train-fully-charges-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ingenious-electric-train-fully-charges-itself","title":{"rendered":"Ingenious Electric Train Fully Charges Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ingenious-electric-train-fully-charges-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian mining company Fortescue is looking to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations by allowing a specially designed electric \u201cInfinity Train\u201d to roll down a hill to recharge its massive batteries \u2014 without ever relying on an external charging system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Infinity Train has the capacity to be the world\u2019s most efficient battery electric locomotive,\u201d Fortescue CEO Elizabeth Gaines said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmgl.com.au\/in-the-news\/media-releases\/2022\/03\/01\/fortescue-williams-(wae)-settlement-powers-development-of-world-first-infinity-train\" class=\"\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe regeneration of electricity on the downhill loaded sections will remove the need for the installation of renewable energy generation and recharging infrastructure, making it a capital efficient solution for eliminating diesel and emissions from our rail operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cleverly designed system: since the train is far lighter on the way up, it will generate enough energy fully loaded with iron ore on the way down to make it back up to the mine. In other words, it might sound like a perpetual motion machine \u2014 which is impossible, of course \u2014 but in reality it\u2019s just an ingenious exploit of conventional physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian mining company Fortescue is looking to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations by allowing a specially designed electric \u201cInfinity Train\u201d to roll down a hill to recharge its massive batteries \u2014 without ever relying on an external charging system. \u201cThe Infinity Train has the capacity to be the world\u2019s most efficient battery electric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}