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The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible | Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Solar panels would be better (newrepublic.com)

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Actually, big rigs being all ev is fine for last mile / in-city delivery.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

You want any shipping to back heavily on rail for any distance, don't you?

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[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago

Germany's electrified highway system looks very promising for longer distance truck transport too. It's basically the same system that overhead electrified rail uses. That way the battery only needs to be able to get the truck to and from that highway, the distance covered on the highway is charging time.

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