[Willie Green]

Siemens is involved in the Tranrapid Maglev technology that I follow, but on everything else, they're pretty similar to General Electric.
(Perhaps not, I can't recall if Siemens slaps their name onto domestic appliances or not.
And GE is so huge, I wouldn't be surprised if they own a chain of doughnut shops somewhere.)

Anyway, I think it's a shame that they're trying to do the windmill thingy... just like GE. We could've used more nukes instead of windmills, but it looks like Siemens pulled out of nuclear power just last year.

[DuncanWaring]

Maybe they could put wind turbines on top of their trains to generate power to run the trains.It's a joke, son, a joke! (invisible version of sarcasm tag)

[DonaldC]

I wonder if we still have the manufacturing capacity to build a project like this anymore.

[dirtboy]

Wind, Trains Government Subsidies Power Siemens' Future in the U.S.

[truthguy]

Wind and Solar Power are incomprehensibly stupid. We cannot exist as an industrial power with this level of stupidity.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Wind and solar will not drive our transit system. You cannot idle the train when the wind does not blow or the sun sets. And we do not have the technology to store electrical power. If I do not hear about nuclear backup then I dismiss all articles about wind and solar as daydreams.

OTOH, we ship a great deal of freight across the country every day using great amounts of diesel fuel. These routes are fixed and could be electrified at a great reduction in our use of oil. But again, not if we rely on wind and sun.