@BOB WALKER posted:Several postings mentioned battery power locos. I support this but recognize that there is an unresolved issue with a simple recharging configuration. There is a development taking place which could result in a battery which never requires recharging and will supply power indefinitely. If this became available, I could envision that all our future locos would be wireless battery powered.
Such a thing would not be a battery,by definition a battery needs recharging. As far as indefinitely goes, you could have some kind of ion based fuel cell that lasts a really long time, but wouldn't be infinite (I realize that when you say infinite, you mean likely not in our lifetime or whatever..
. An infinite power source doesn't exist, it can't, thermodynamics states that entropy increases to a maximum, even the stars are not infinite in terms of lifetime. I think battery technology is getting there, though, that we will see a battery to fit in trains that can run for several hours and could be recharged 80% in like 10 minutes within the next 5 years or so (assuming it doesn't take an 800kw charger to do that *lol*)>
