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I've started listening to "Everything Electric" podcast and am increasingly getting irritated by the idea that the only solution is everyone getting rid of their ice car and getting an electric one.
I can't work out thats because it fits my rhetoric/approach (got rid of my car for an electric moped) or if I really believe it.
The biggest motivator for cars and wide roads are weekend getaways; there are good options for commute and long-distance travel. Maybe, if you ban private car purchases and have good rail connectivity, people'd get by on rentals.
Now do the same for trains.
Or do you think they don't kill animals / require resources?
Maybe perfect is the enemy of good?
Excellent whataboutism.
Even if we did want to humor them. 1 or 2 train tracks to cross is much easier for an animal than a 6 lane road of mixed traffic. Trains are all chained together so rails see a train every 5-15 minutes at most whereas a road could see hundreds of cars all spaced apart and going different speeds in that same time frame. Trains will still hit some animals, but it far less per person/good moved per mile of travel than a car.
As for their resources argument yes they still use resources, but it is less resources spent overall so still a better option.
I was watching How It's Made recently, and they did asphalt. The components were crushed granite in three different sizes, sand, and some "cement" that is a byproduct of oil refining. And I'm sitting there watching it thinking, "Wow. We're doing this on purpose."
Asphalt is at least the most recycled material we use. I guess except water technically speaking.
Doing what? As far as road surfaces go, asphalt is the most environmentally friendly (other than just having only dirt roads). Concrete emits CO2 as an inherent part of the process, and a brick road would be hilariously expensive, and non-durable. Asphalt also has the distinction of being the most recycled material on the planet. And not just in a "10% get recycled and everything is less" sense. Almost all asphalt ends up being recycled into more asphalt.
Doing what?
We're in the !fuckcars community. What do you think? We're building more roads instead of more rails. We're building wider roads instead of using more buses and bicycles.
Edit: And to be clear, we're doing all of that by putting industrial waste on top of our land.
A study from tech company Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University sought to answer the question of just how much energy is needed to make AI images a viewable reality. Their findings show that a single image generation can consume as much as half of a smartphone's battery charge, approximately 0.011 kilowatt hours of energy
https://www.slashgear.com/1696332/ai-image-generation-how-much-energy-used/
Edit: wait is this not ai?
Obviously not, AI art does not have a cohesive style
Busses and trains cause many of those same issues. What is the message here? Fuck all transportation and just stay at home?
