Trains

With its gifted cast and a playwright with an expansive vision, “Train Stories” is a play of extensive scope and simple scale. It challenges ideas on what it means to do the right thing, and how the everyday is constantly informed by the past.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, found that existing rail networks can be used to transport batteries to places in need; a cost effective solution to power-grid issues. 

By combining trains powered by overhead electrical lines — similar to trains in Europe and India with cables connecting to power lines on top —with on-board battery packs, we can build a zero-emission, electrified rail system that spans coast to coast.

Cities were built to be scalable systems. They weren’t modeled for thousands of underpaid drivers to “pick up Divya and drop off Varsha next” all day.