federalreverse comments on Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car

Climate

9,028 readers

2,536 active

231 users here now

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 3 years ago

moderators

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Normalized by passenger, certainly. However, it's easier to hit passenger capacity in a train than in a (private) car.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Wait the private car isn't normalized as 1 person per car or 1.2 average people per car?

Deeply suspicious framing if that's the case.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

You misunderstood me. For one, I simply assumed that locomotives have big engines for a reason and thus the number can't be calculated for the entire train. For two, when I mentioned the capacity of cars, I meant maximum passenger capacity. I said that because at maximum passenger capacity, cars become a reasonable means of transportation whereas normally, they are ridiculously inefficient.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

So if you just 4 people in an electric car then it beats a train? Huh

permalink

fedilink

source

parent