A California company wants to build a rail line to nowhere in the desert west of Las Vegas. And, no, that isn’t some mean-spirited joke about the proposed high-speed train to Victorville. This rail line — the first of its kind anywhere in the world — would run 5.5 miles up the western slope of the Spring Mountains near Pahrump to store electricity and stabilize the power grid. It’s known as Advanced Rail Energy Storage,…
Robot train in desert planned to store green energy
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