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It's an absolute joke of an article considering it doesn't even float the concept of bicycles or public transport as part of the solution. Then you get to their
by enragedcacti 3y ago
It's an absolute joke of an article considering it doesn't even float the concept of bicycles or public transport as part of the solution. Then you get to their "solutions" to how we can reduce carbon emissions and find this claim:
> Combustion engines have already been built and are commercially viable that can cut fuel use by 50%.
This is sourced by an article titled "Nissan Says It's Working on an Engine With 50-Percent Thermal Efficiency", whose first paragraph notes that production engines from Toyota already have a 41% thermal efficiency. Turning a hypothetical 9 point increase in thermal efficiency into "can cut fuel use by 50%" is malpractice and you shouldn't trust a single word they say elsewhere.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35646974/nissan-50-percent-thermal-efficiency/ https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35646974/nissan-50-percen...
- damnesian 3y agoThank you. Bicycles and public transport have become the alternatives of which we may not speak. Maybe it's embarassment. Countries like Colombia have made great strides in improving the lives of average citizens by investing heavily in public transportation infrastucture. It's a road we could have gone down, but embraced the primrose path we were led to by car and oil companies. Massively inefficient compared to the alternative of offloading as much traffic as possible in a national electric train system and local subway/cablecar/bicycle commuter highway systems.