Comment on Renewables cover more than half of Germany’s electricity demand for first time this year
sonori@beehaw.org 1 year agoYep, road where goes with the square of vehicle weight. A singe semi truck is far more damaging than a hundred cars, and bikes don’t do damage period.
As for EVs, while they are often heavier than ICE’s, it’s only by a few percent, and less impactful than the vehicle obesity epidemic we’ve seen here in the US in the last decade.
iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
goods should only be transported on rail, period. i agree about the rest.
sonori@beehaw.org 1 year ago
It makes some sense to use electric or biofuel trucks to move goods for short distances as well as the distance between a facility and an distribution yard, but for long distance I fully agree that we called them multi modal containers for a reason. You can move a container from truck to electric train in seconds, and indeed we already do that for anything that has to travel by ship anyway.
Moving goods vast distances over land extremely cheaply and with zero carbon emissions is a problem that was solved long ago with overhead electrified rail, and it’s amazing to see the lengths we here in North America will go to avoid investing in it.
iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
i hope that this falls in the same line but in Germany they rather tow double trailers on the Autobahn (highway) instead of shipping by rail (which is maybe slower) while destroying highways in the process, and costing the taxpayer money to be repaired. So shipping companies like Hermes® would ship you products at a cheap price but is in fact stealing tax money from the taxpayer indirectly