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Similarly, my bicycle is lighter than my father's horse. Mass alone does not tell the whole story.
by i_am_proteus 5y ago
Similarly, my bicycle is lighter than my father's horse.
Mass alone does not tell the whole story.
- mmarq 5y agoAnd it also requires much less energy and maintenance to be produced and operated. Growth.
- taneq 5y agoI'm actually curious, which one DOES take more resources all up? And what do you count as a resource? ie. the bicycle would take far more coal and iron ore (neither of which the horse needs) but the horse would use up far more water and otherwise edible grains.
- boudin 5y agoThere's actually more to take into account to push the subject a lot. The human on a bicycle also needs food and water to move the bicycle. Which is the more efficient at converting those resources into movement and in which scenario ?
- i_am_proteus 5y agoThe horse also generates more power than a human on a bicycle. The horse does not need improved roads the way most bicycles do, and is more reliable off road than most mountain bikes. Lots of food for thought here.
- goatlover 5y agoA horse also needs food and shelter and they poop. An early argument in favor of cars over horses were that cars didn’t leave fecal matter everywhere in cities.
- imtringued 5y agoAn electric bike does not need to be fed with crops.