I'ma gonna need a better source for that, k !?..
francisco
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Great post! Thanks for this.
"Ninety percent of the world doesn’t need to reduce their [personal] emissions, but most readers of The Washington Post probably do,”
*same article on archive.is.
Thanks! And that is a very fair point.
I'm not sure I understand your stand. Are u implying nuclear power stations should be made even if not profitable?
Somehow I always think of the migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean. I hope events are unrelated.
Will look for that city nerd.
Fuel is heavily subsidized, trains are not.
How do these subsidies work, that the rail companies cannot tap into those. The electrified trains have most of their electricity coming from fossil fuels which would benefit from the same subsidies.
I feel that an optimised engine on a low friction track carrying 500-1000 people should be orders of magnitude cheaper than a car.
Did not know that. Thanks for the info.
It still surprises me that a 300km train ticket costs about the same per person as taking a car with 2 people paying fuel and highway tolls. A 600 seat optimized 'car' on a dedicated low friction track should be, maybe, 100x cheaper.
Yes, you make some very valid points on underestimating the costs of a car. But even at 50c/km, that compares with 10c/(km.person) on a train. On the other side of the competition, long/medium distance trains are more expensive than airplanes. What's up with that? Look at France legislating to favour trains. So I ask myself if it is even possible to get around those centralisation issues with a more DIY fashion.
Yea, urban trains can work really well. With somewhat overlapping services.
But for longer distances i don't really understand why today's fares are higher than using a car share between 2 people. I've seen that kind of pricing weirdness in Portugal, Spain, England and France, and that does not sound efficient at all.
In a lot of places the words 'tea' and 'infusion' are used interchangeably. Might be that..
This somehow reminds me of the plastic industry ploy to discredit cork stoppers and thus get wine with plastic stoppers. ---- No. No, the production of cork does not require the killing of the cork oak tree.